Definition of bank

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Bank (n.) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland..

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Bankruptcy :: Bankruptcy (n.) Complete loss; -- followed by of.
Bank Note :: Bank note () A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to bearer on demand..
Crevasse :: Crevasse (n.) A deep crevice or fissure, as in embankment; one of the clefts or fissure by which the mass of a glacier is divided..
Polder :: Polder (n.) A tract of low land reclaimed from the sea by of high embankments.
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..
Thelphusian :: Thelphusian (n.) One of a tribe of fresh-water crabs which live in or on the banks of rivers in tropical countries.
Stock :: Stock (n.) Money or capital which an individual or a firm employs in business; fund; in the United States, the capital of a bank or other company, in the form of transferable shares, each of a certain amount; money funded in government securities, called also the public funds; in the plural, property consisting of shares in joint-stock companies, or in the obligations of a government for its funded debt; -- so in the United States, but in England the latter only are called stocks, and the former
Account :: Account (n.) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank..
Sea Wall :: Sea wall () A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea..
Redeem :: Redeem (v. t.) To regain by performing the obligation or condition stated; to discharge the obligation mentioned in, as a promissory note, bond, or other evidence of debt; as, to redeem bank notes with coin..
Shelf :: Shelf (v. i.) A sand bank in the sea, or a rock, or ledge of rocks, rendering the water shallow, and dangerous to ships..
Bank :: 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..
Dike :: Dike (n.) An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee.
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..
Bankrupt :: Bankrupt (a.) Destitute of, or wholly wanting (something once possessed, or something one should possess)..
Im- :: Im- () A form of the prefix in- not, and in- in. See In-. Im- also occurs in composition with some words not of Latin origin; as, imbank, imbitter..
Baccarat :: Baccarat (n.) A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters..
Failure :: Failure (n.) A becoming insolvent; bankruptcy; suspension of payment; as, failure in business..
Banker :: Banker (n.) A ditcher; a drain digger.
Marsebanker :: Marsebanker (n.) The menhaden.
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