Definition of bank

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Bank (n.) A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine..

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Double-bank :: Double-bank (v. t.) To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.
Bankrupting :: Bankrupting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bankrup.
Exchange :: Exchange (n.) The place where the merchants, brokers, and bankers of a city meet at certain hours, to transact business. In this sense often contracted to 'Change..
Bund :: Bund (n.) An embankment against inundation.
Assignee :: Assignee (v.) In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors..
Thelphusian :: Thelphusian (n.) One of a tribe of fresh-water crabs which live in or on the banks of rivers in tropical countries.
Flat :: Flat (n.) A level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences; an extended plain; specifically, in the United States, a level tract along the along the banks of a river; as, the Mohawk Flats..
Trireme :: Trireme (n.) An ancient galley or vessel with tree banks, or tiers, of oars..
Incorporate :: Incorporate (v. t.) To form into a legal body, or body politic; to constitute into a corporation recognized by law, with special functions, rights, duties and liabilities; as, to incorporate a bank, a railroad company, a city or town, etc..
Double-banked :: Double-banked (a.) Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or thwart..
Bank :: Bank (v. t.) To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand..
Teller :: Teller (n.) An officer of a bank who receives and counts over money paid in, and pays money out on checks..
Earthwork :: Earthwork (n.) The operation connected with excavations and embankments of earth in preparing foundations of buildings, in constructing canals, railroads, etc..
Unbank :: Unbank (v. t.) To remove a bank from; to open by, or as if by, the removal of a bank..
Fascine :: Fascine (n.) A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc..
Bank :: Bank (v. i.) To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a banker.
Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor..
Bank :: Bank (v. i.) To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.
Ravelin :: Ravelin (n.) A detached work with two embankments which make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune, and half-moon..
Bank :: Bank (v. t.) To deposit in a bank.
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