| 释义 | spoil bank Also spoil-bank.
 [f. spoil n. 7 c or 10.]
 A bank or large mound consisting of refuse earth or similar waste material.
 
 1830Booth L'pool & Manch. Rly. 55 The remainder, deposited as spoil banks, may be seen heaped up like Pelion upon Ossa. 1854Hull Improv. Act 9 The piece of land..on the foreshore of the river Humber, near to a spoil bank. 1888Lees & Clutterbuck B.C. 1877 xiii. (1892) 126 It was nearly all loose red shale, very much like the burnt spoil-banks common in colliery districts. |