sandbank.

A raised deposit of sand in a river, sea, or other body of water, sometimes exposed above the surface.

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Words that belong together

• an exposed sandbank
• shifting sandbanks

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At low tide, the sandbank cut the harbor mouth into two narrow channels.

Usage notes

Primary category: setting / environment. Forms: Singular sandbank; plural sandbanks. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: setting, description. Commonness: moderately common.