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What is a cutbank?

What is a cutbank? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (Canada) The outer edge of the bend in a stream or river, where the water cuts into the bank leaving the opposite side flat.
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On the morning that they approached the camp here on cutbank, Falling Bear had partly recovered the use of one eye.
He stands broadside to the road's line of travel, his front feet at the bottom of the cutbank where the road is in a trough sliced through a low hill to ease the grade.
I worked my way downstream chucking streamer after streamer toward the cutbank and stripping it back with little jerks to imitate a swimming bait fish.
It was the Pu-nak-ik-si, or cutbank River, so named on account of the rock walls on both sides of the lower part of its valley.
Radiocarbon ages are not available for the cutbank deposits adjacent to the point bar that produced the Arctodus humerus.
A hundred yards from his objective he dismounted, removed his spurs, and crawled stealthily toward the rim of the cutbank.

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