Definition of bank

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Bank (n.) A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars..

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Trireme :: Trireme (n.) An ancient galley or vessel with tree banks, or tiers, of oars..
Place :: Place (n.) To put out at interest; to invest; to loan; as, to place money in a bank..
Bank :: Bank (n.) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level..
Embanking :: Embanking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Emban.
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..
Adjudication :: Adjudication (n.) The decision upon the question whether the debtor is a bankrupt.
Beefwood :: Beefwood (n.) An Australian tree (Casuarina), and its red wood, used for cabinetwork; also, the trees Stenocarpus salignus of New South Wales, and Banksia compar of Queensland..
Wharf :: Wharf (n.) The bank of a river, or the shore of the sea..
Bank :: Bank (n.) A sort of table used by printers.
Unbank :: Unbank (v. t.) To remove a bank from; to open by, or as if by, the removal of a bank..
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..
Assets :: Assets (n. pl.) Effects of an insolvent debtor or bankrupt, applicable to the payment of debts..
Crevasse :: Crevasse (n.) A breach in the levee or embankment of a river, caused by the pressure of the water, as on the lower Mississippi..
Smash :: Smash (n.) Hence, bankruptcy..
Scar :: Scar (n.) An isolated or protruding rock; a steep, rocky eminence; a bare place on the side of a mountain or steep bank of earth..
Mountebank :: Mountebank (n.) Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
Down :: Down (prep.) A bank or rounded hillock of sand thrown up by the wind along or near the shore; a flattish-topped hill; -- usually in the plural.
Ripe :: Ripe (n.) The bank of a river.
Emission :: Emission (n.) The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission of heat from a fire; the emission of bank notes..
Wild-cat :: Wild-cat (a.) Unsound; worthless; irresponsible; unsafe; -- said to have been originally applied to the notes of an insolvent bank in Michigan upon which there was the figure of a panther.
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