claybank

claybank

English

Etymology

clay +‎ bank

Noun

claybank (plural claybanks)

1. A dun-coloured horse.
   • 1916, William Dean Howells, chapter I, in The Leatherwood God‎:

     Reverdy made one action of throwing his leg over the claybank’s back to the ground, and slipping the bridle over the smooth peg left from the limb of the young tree-trunk which formed one of the posts of the porch.

2. (color) Dun; brownish-yellow.
   • 1919, O. Henry [pseudonym; William Sydney Porter], “Next to Reading Matter”, in Roads of Destiny‎:

     I took Señorita Anabela for a walk in the lemon grove while Fergus, disfiguring himself with an ugly frown, was waltzing with the claybank girl.

Translations

dun-coloured horse

German: Falbe (de) m or f

Further reading

• “claybank”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
• “claybank”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.