Definition of bank

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Bank (n.) The face of the coal at which miners are working.

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Lombard :: Lombard (n.) A money lender or banker; -- so called because the business of banking was first carried on in London by Lombards.
Marshbanker :: Marshbanker (n.) Alt. of Marsebanke.
Levee :: Levee (n.) An embankment to prevent inundation; as, the levees along the Mississippi; sometimes, the steep bank of a river..
Polder :: Polder (n.) A tract of low land reclaimed from the sea by of high embankments.
Revet :: Revet (v. t.) To face, as an embankment, with masonry, wood, or other material..
Depositor :: Depositor (n.) One who makes a deposit, especially of money in a bank; -- the correlative of depository..
Cashier :: Cashier (n.) One who has charge of money; a cash keeper; the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantile company..
Kite :: Kite (n.) Fictitious commercial paper used for raising money or to sustain credit, as a check which represents no deposit in bank, or a bill of exchange not sanctioned by sale of goods; an accommodation check or bill..
Glacis :: Glacis (n.) A gentle slope, or a smooth, gently sloping bank; especially (Fort.), that slope of earth which inclines from the covered way toward the exterior ground or country (see Illust. of Ravelin)..
Bank :: Bank (v. t.) To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank..
Imbanking :: Imbanking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Imban.
Suspension :: Suspension (n.) Of the payment of what is due; as, the suspension of a mercantile firm or of a bank..
Mountebank :: Mountebank (v. t.) To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.
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..
Counterfeiter :: Counterfeiter (n.) One who counterfeits; one who copies or imitates; especially, one who copies or forges bank notes or coin; a forger..
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..
Punter :: Punter (v. t.) One who punts; specifically, one who plays against the banker or dealer, as in baccara and faro..
Anthelion :: Anthelion (n.) A halo opposite the sun, consisting of a colored ring or rings around the shadow of the spectator's own head, as projected on a cloud or on an opposite fog 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..
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