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Webster's Online English Dictionary

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bank


bank is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow. They cast up a bank against the city. 2 Sam. xx. 15.

[2] A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.

[3] The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow. Tiber trembled underneath her banks. Shak.

[4] An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland.

[5] The face of the coal at which miners are working.

[6] A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.

[7] The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank. Bank beaver (Zoöl.), the otter. [Local, U.S.] -- Bank swallow, a small American and European swallow (Clivicola riparia) that nests in a hole which it excavates in a bank.


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