Definition of Claybanks

1. claybank [n] - See also: claybank

Lexicographical Neighbors of Claybanks

clawless
clawlike
claws
claxon
claxons
clay
clay-colored robin
clay pigeon
clay pigeon poisoning
clay pigeons
clay pipe
clay sculpture
clay shoveler's fracture
clay up
claybank
claybanks (current term)
claybed
claybeds
claybeg
claycourt
claycourts
claye
clayed
clayen
clayes
clayey
clayeyness
clayier
clayiest
clayiness

Literary usage of Claybanks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Story of a Border City During the Civil War by Galusha Anderson (1908)
"CHAPTER XX CHARCOALS AND claybanks IN our hot fight for Missouri and the Union we unhappily split up into factions. We not only contended against secession ..."

2. Great Lakes Pilot...1921 by United States Hydrographic Office (1921)
"The claybanks.—From Vails Point, already described, the outer coast runs eastward 5£ miles to Cape Rich, and nearly midway between them is a light-colored ..."

3. The Abolitionists: Together with Personal Memories of the Struggle for Human by John Ferguson Hume (1905)
"Mulattoes are claybanks. Trie claybanks, or Conservatives, at the outset enjoyed a decided advantage in having the State government on their side. ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1876)
"In the southwest corner of Oceana County, in the town of claybanks (Section 21, T. 13, ... The lake-bluff here, called "the claybanks," is 275 feet high; ..."

5. A History of Missouri by Eugene Morrow Violette (1918)
"2 These two parties at first were called "claybanks" and "Charcoals. ... The "claybanks" originally were those who had opposed Fremont's radical policy ..."

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