Also spoil-bank. [f. SPOIL sb. 7 c or 10.] A bank or large mound consisting of refuse earth or similar waste material.
1830. Booth, L’pool & Manch. Rly., 55. The remainder, deposited as spoil banks, may be seen heaped up like Pelion upon Ossa.
1854. Hull Improv. Act, 9. The piece of land … on the foreshore of the river Humber, near to a spoil bank.
1888. Lees & Clutterbuck, B. C. 1887, xiii. (1892), 126. It was nearly all loose red shale, very much like the burnt spoil-banks common in colliery districts.
