Definition of bank

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Bank (n.) The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow..

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Footing :: Footing (n.) The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot..
Paper :: Paper (n.) Negotiable evidences of indebtedness; notes; bills of exchange, and the like; as, the bank holds a large amount of his paper..
Rampart :: Rampart (n.) A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification..
Delph :: Delph (n.) The drain on the land side of a sea embankment.
Bankable :: Bankable (a.) Receivable at a bank.
Unbank :: Unbank (v. t.) To remove a bank from; to open by, or as if by, the removal of a bank..
Upland :: Upland (n.) High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally dry; -- opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh, swamp, interval, and the like..
Shinplaster :: Shinplaster (n.) Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar..
Utter :: Utter (a.) hence, to put in circulation, as money; to put off, as currency; to cause to pass in trade; -- often used, specifically, of the issue of counterfeit notes or coins, forged or fraudulent documents, and the like; as, to utter coin or bank notes..
Quacksalver :: Quacksalver (n.) One who boasts of his skill in medicines and salves, or of the efficacy of his prescriptions; a charlatan; a quack; a mountebank..
Saltimbanco :: Saltimbanco (n.) A mountebank; a quack.
Bund :: Bund (n.) An embankment against inundation.
Dam :: Dam (n.) A barrier to prevent the flow of a liquid; esp., a bank of earth, or wall of any kind, as of masonry or wood, built across a water course, to confine and keep back flowing water..
Bank :: Bank (n.) The bench or seat upon which the judges sit.
Issue :: Issue (v. t.) To send out; to put into circulation; as, to issue notes from a bank..
Director :: Director (n.) One of a body of persons appointed to manage the affairs of a company or corporation; as, the directors of a bank, insurance company, or railroad company..
Suspender :: Suspend (v. i.) To cease from operation or activity; esp., to stop payment, or be unable to meet obligations or engagements (said of a commercial firm or a bank)..
Bank :: Bank (v. i.) To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.
Embanking :: Embanking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Emba.
Crest :: Crest (n.) The top line of a slope or embankment.
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