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ˈbanky, a. [f. bank n.1 + -y1.] Full of banks, ridgy; of or pertaining to a bank; inclined like a bank or hill side; hilly.
1610Markham Masterp. ii. liii. 304 Vpon a hard and stony ground, and after vpon a bancky ground. 1649W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653) Ded., Old mossy, rushy, bankie pasture Lands. 1710Philips Pastorals vi. 5 And here below, the Banky Shore along, Your Heifers graze. 1729M. Browne Piscat. Eclog. ix. (1773) 134 The banky shelter. 1863Atkinson Provinc. Danby, There's a vast o' banky land iv it. T' rooad to Whitby's sair an' banky. 1868Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. IV. 266, 120 acres of banky grass land. 1931Observer 4 Oct. 26/5 The banky marge of a woodland..will be a good site for a large colony. |