a. Obs. or dial. [f. BANK sb.1 + -Y1.] Full of banks, ridgy; of or pertaining to a bank; inclined like a bank or hill side; hilly.
1610. Markham, Masterp., II. liii. 304. Vpon a hard and stony ground, and after vpon a bancky ground.
1649. Blith, Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653), Ded. Old mossy, rushy, bankie pasture Lands.
1710. Philips, Pastorals, vi. 5. And here below, the Banky Shore along, Your Heifers graze.
1729. M. Browne, Piscat. Eclog., ix. (1773), 134. The banky shelter.
[1863. Atkinson, Provinc. Danby. There’s a vast o’ banky land iv it. T’ rooad to Whitby’s sair an’ banky.]
