a. Full to the bank or brink.
c. 1581. J. Falkner, in Eng. Mech., 4 Feb. (1870), 500/2. The same water in the morning before was bankefull.
1637. Rutherford, Lett., 169 (1862), I. 397. A little of God would make my soul bankfull.
1865. Visct. Milton & W. B. Cheadle, Northwest Passage by Land, 275. This river was some sixty yards in width, and bank-full with glacier-water.
