1808 R. Warner Let. 24 Aug. in (1809) 344 The road banks, high and shady, reminded us of Devonshire.
1897 30 244/2 He had jumped, and so saved himself from going over the side of the road-bank.
1978 12 ii. 85 A rare species..with a yellow stem has been found on a clayey road bank.
2007 (Nexis) 22 July The old-fashioned, ‘wild’ ones [sc. daylilies] that populate roadbanks and forgotten farmsteads.