A ridge of sand; a sandbank.

A sandbank in the sea or a river; a ford made by a bed of sand or shingle.

A sandbank in a river or the sea; = shelf, n.2

With a and plural. A sandbank, shoal.

A ridge of sand or gravel formed by the sea; a gravelly beach; a sand-spit. Also: a sandbank.

A bank of sand, silt, etc., across the mouth of a river or harbour, which obstructs navigation.

A name given on the coast of Lincolnshire, etc., to sandbanks. Cf. Kentish Knock, a sandbank near the mouth of the Thames; also Knock Sand.

A bank of sand formed in a river or sea by the action of tides and currents.

Nautical. A shallow place such as a bank or bar, esp. as a navigational obstruction. Obsolete.

Nautical. = middle ground, n. 1. Obsolete.

The name of a sandbank in the Hudson River below Albany, read by N.E.D. (1904) as a generic term for ‘a bar or sand-bank which impedes the navigation…

a bank of sand formed at the mouth of a river or harbour by the action of the water; also, a sandbank in the course of a river or close to a beach.

A sandbank; = bank, n.1 4.

a light-coloured head of hair; (also) an unkempt or tousled head; a person having such hair; spec. a local name in southern U.S. for Mergus cucullatus…

†The bank of a river (obsolete); also, a gravel or sandbank.

transferred (from sense 1). An object resembling a whale; Astronomy (with capital initial) the constellation Cetus.

A mud or sand bank. dialect.