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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Witchuck :: Witchuck (n.) The sand martin, or bank swallow..
Footing :: Footing (n.) The thickened or sloping portion of a wall, or of an embankment at its foot..
Stock :: Stock (n.) That portion of a pack of cards not distributed to the players at the beginning of certain games, as gleek, etc., but which might be drawn from afterward as occasion required; a bank..
Rest :: Rest (n.) A surplus held as a reserved fund by a bank to equalize its dividends, etc.; in the Bank of England, the balance of assets above liabilities..
Bridge :: Bridge (n.) A structure, usually of wood, stone, brick, or iron, erected over a river or other water course, or over a chasm, railroad, etc., to make a passageway from one bank to the other..
Cash :: Cash (n.) Ready money; especially, coin or specie; but also applied to bank notes, drafts, bonds, or any paper easily convertible into money.
Strike :: Strike (v. i.) To run upon a rock or bank; to be stranded; as, the ship struck in the night..
Bluff :: Bluff (n.) A high, steep bank, as by a river or the sea, or beside a ravine or plain; a cliff with a broad face..
Batter :: Batter (n.) A backward slope in the face of a wall or of a bank; receding slope.
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..
Gazette :: Gazette (v. t.) To announce or publish in a gazette; to announce officially, as an appointment, or a case of bankruptcy..
Sheeting :: Sheeting (n.) A lining of planks or boards (rarely of metal) for protecting an embankment.
Foreland :: Foreland (n.) That portion of the natural shore on the outside of the embankment which receives the stock of waves and deadens their force.
Bankrupt :: Bankrupt (n.) A trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts; an insolvent person..
Banker :: Banker (n.) The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house..
Break :: Break (v. i.) To fall in business; to become bankrupt.
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..
Fill :: Fill (a.) To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel..
Embanking :: Embanking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Emba.
Bankruptcy :: Bankruptcy (n.) Complete loss; -- followed by of.
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