sandbank

As Helles, Anzac and Tenedos have each been ruled out, we are going to doss down on this sandbank opposite us.

Sometimes we see them stranded on a hidden sandbank with the crew making frantic efforts to get them off again.

Sometimes we would come near being stranded on a sandbank, and would have to jump overboard and push our craft into deeper water.

The Volga glided quietly between its overgrown banks, with here and there a sandbank or an island thickly covered with bushes.

Padstow is situated on the western side of the Camel estuary, below the sandbank known as the Doom Bar (probably dune-bar).