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Coast :: Coast (v. t.) To conduct along a coast or river bank.

Bank :: Bank (n.) The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank..

Fascine :: Fascine (n.) A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc..

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..

Discountable :: Discountable (a.) Capable of being, or suitable to be, discounted; as, certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable at a bank..

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..

Embankment :: Embankment (n.) The act of surrounding or defending with a bank.

Crest :: Crest (n.) The top line of a slope or embankment.

Bourse :: Bourse (n.) An exchange, or place where merchants, bankers, etc., meet for business at certain hours; esp., the Stock Exchange of Paris..

Bankeress :: Bankeress (n.) A female banker.

Double-bank :: Double-bank (v. t.) To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.

Flood :: Flood (v. i.) A great flow or stream of any fluid substance; as, a flood of light; a flood of lava; hence, a great quantity widely diffused; an overflowing; a superabundance; as, a flood of bank notes; a flood of paper currency..

Banking :: Banking (n.) The business of a bank or of a banker.

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..

Sea Bank :: Sea bank () A bank or mole to defend against the sea.

Bund :: Bund (n.) An embankment against inundation.

Fill :: Fill (a.) To make an embankment in, or raise the level of (a low place), with earth or gravel..

Ravelin :: Ravelin (n.) A detached work with two embankments which make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune, and half-moon..

Whitewash :: Whitewash (v. t.) To make white; to give a fair external appearance to; to clear from imputations or disgrace; hence, to clear (a bankrupt) from obligation to pay debts..

Bank :: Bank (n.) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ..

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