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claybank

claybank

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A bank of clay by a river or a horse with a tan coat
  • noun
: banco de arcilla
  • Trainers often prefer a claybank horse for its striking appearance in competitions.

Examples

  • Take, for example, this photograph of Cicindela limbalis (Common Claybank Tiger Beetle).

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  • At the farm, I saw a claybank horse grazing peacefully by the lake.

  • The horse with a claybank coat looked stunning against the green pasture.

Surface Forms

claybank singular
claybanks plural

Morphology

claybank = clay + bank (semi-transparent) = clay + bank

The noun is a straightforward compound 'clay' + 'bank' meaning a bank or deposit composed of clay.

Etymology

Claybank as a noun also joins clay ('soft earth') and bank ('slope' or 'edge'), meaning a place where clay collects or forms a slope. By extension, people called a horse a claybank when its coat looked like that pale, yellowish-tan clay, so the word can mean both a clay deposit and a horse with a clay-like coat.