Definition of bank

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Bank (n.) The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank..

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Frett :: Frett (n.) The worn side of the bank of a river. See 4th Fret, n., 4..
Banker :: Banker (n.) A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
Bank :: Bank (n.) A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine..
Thelphusian :: Thelphusian (n.) One of a tribe of fresh-water crabs which live in or on the banks of rivers in tropical countries.
Hornbeam :: Hornbeam (n.) A tree of the genus Carpinus (C. Americana), having a smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard. It is common along the banks of streams in the United States, and is also called ironwood. The English hornbeam is C. Betulus. The American is called also blue beech and water beech..
Bay :: Bay (n.) A bank or dam to keep back water.
Bankrupted :: Bankrupted (imp. & p. p.) of Bankrup.
Dike :: Dike (v. t.) To surround or protect with a dike or dry bank; to secure with a bank.
Brookside :: Brookside (n.) The bank of a brook.
Syndicate :: Syndicate (n.) An association of persons officially authorized to undertake some duty or to negotiate some business; also, an association of persons who combine to carry out, on their own account, a financial or industrial project; as, a syndicate of bankers formed to take up and dispose of an entire issue of government bonds..
Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To take or procure from a place of deposit; to call for and receive from a fund, or the like; as, to draw money from a bank..
Mattress :: Mattress (n.) A mass of interwoven brush, poles, etc., to protect a bank from being worn away by currents or waves..
Cod :: Cod (n.) An important edible fish (Gadus morrhua), taken in immense numbers on the northern coasts of Europe and America. It is especially abundant and large on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland. It is salted and dried in large quantities..
Banking :: Banking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Ban.
Inclose :: Inclose (v. t.) To put within a case, envelope, or the like; to fold (a thing) within another or into the same parcel; as, to inclose a letter or a bank note..
Water Wing :: Water wing () One of two walls built on either side of the junction of a bridge with the bank of a river, to protect the abutment of the bridge and the bank from the action of the current..
Suspension :: Suspension (n.) Of the payment of what is due; as, the suspension of a mercantile firm or of a bank..
Bank :: Bank (n.) The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank..
Revetment :: Revetment (v. t.) A facing of wood, stone, or any other material, to sustain an embankment when it receives a slope steeper than the natural slope; also, a retaining wall..
Bank :: Bank (n.) A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars..
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