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seabank

Today it means: A bank or mole to defend against the sea. Full definition →

Middle English see-banke

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Middle English · inherited fromsee-banke
English todayseabank

From Middle English see-banke, se-banke, see banke, equivalent to sea + bank.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.