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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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We had come up the Mississippi's east side, and now he swung crosscurrent, heading for the cutbank of the west-convexing bend just above the structures of Old River.
A hundred yards from his objective he dismounted, removed his spurs, and crawled stealthily toward the rim of the cutbank.
The deer had leaped from a cutbank onto the sand, had whirled around in several sharp turns, and had run into the adjacent brush.
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.
At the time the people moved up here on cutbank, he had been married but a short time.
Radiocarbon ages are not available for the cutbank deposits adjacent to the point bar that produced the Arctodus humerus.

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