Bank (n.) A bench |
Bank (n.) A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level |
Bank (n.) A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine. |
Bank (n.) The margin of a watercourse |
Bank (n.) An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea |
Bank (n.) The face of the coal at which miners are working. |
Bank (n.) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level. |
Bank (n.) The ground at the top of a shaft |
Bank (v. t.) To raise a mound or dike about |
Bank (v. t.) To heap or pile up |
Bank (v. t.) To pass by the banks of. |
Bank (n.) A bench, as for rowers in a galley |
Bank (n.) The bench or seat upon which the judges sit. |
Bank (n.) The regular term of a court of law, or the full court sitting to hear arguments upon questions of law, as distinguished from a sitting at Nisi Prius, or a court held for jury trials. See Banc. |
Bank (n.) A sort of table used by printers. |
Bank (n.) A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ. |
Bank (n.) An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue, of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or bills of exchange |
Bank (n.) The building or office used for banking purposes. |
Bank (n.) A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business |
Bank (n.) The sum of money or the checks which the dealer or banker has as a fund, from which to draw his stakes and pay his losses. |
Bank (n.) In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw. |
Bank (v. t.) To deposit in a bank. |
Bank (v. i.) To keep a bank |
Bank (v. i.) To deposit money in a bank |
Bank bill () In America (and formerly in England), a promissory note of a bank payable to the bearer on demand, and used as currency |
Bank bill () In England, a note, or a bill of exchange, of a bank, payable to order, and usually at some future specified time. Such bills are negotiable, but form, in the strict sense of the term, no part of the currency. |
Bank book () A book kept by a depositor, in which an officer of a bank enters the debits and credits of the depositor's account with the bank. |
Bank note () A promissory note issued by a bank or banking company, payable to bearer on demand. |
Bank note () Formerly, a promissory note made by a banker, or banking company, payable to a specified person at a fixed date |
Bank note () A promissory note payable at a bank. |
Bank-sided (a.) Having sides inclining inwards, as a ship |
Bank swallow () See under 1st Bank, n. |
Double-bank (v. t.) To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart. |
Dump (n.) A thick, ill-shapen piece |
Dump (v. t.) A dull, gloomy state of the mind |
Dump (v. t.) Absence of mind |
Dump (v. t.) A melancholy strain or tune in music |
Dump (v. t.) An old kind of dance. |
Dump (v. t.) To knock heavily |
Dump (v. t.) To put or throw down with more or less of violence |
Dump (n.) A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc. |
Dump (n.) A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc. |
Dump (n.) That which is dumped. |
Dump (n.) A pile of ore or rock. |
Heap (n.) A crowd |
Heap (n.) A great number or large quantity of things not placed in a pile. |
Heap (n.) A pile or mass |
Heap (v. t.) To collect in great quantity |
Heap (v. t.) To throw or lay in a heap |
Heap (v. t.) To form or round into a heap, as in measuring |
mine disposal | the disposal of explosive mines |
bank shot | a basketball shot that bounces off of the backboard before passing through the hoop |
bank | a flight maneuver, aircraft tips laterally about its longitudinal axis (especially in turning), the plane went into a steep bank |
vertical bank | a bank so steep that the plane's lateral axis approaches the vertical |
bank closing | act of closing down a bank because of a fiscal emergency or failure |
climb mount | the act of climbing something, it was a difficult climb to the top |
bank withdrawal | the withdrawal of money from your account at a bank |
bank run | the concerted action of depositors who try to withdraw their money from a bank because they think it will fail |
Russian bank crapette | solitaire with two players using separate packs |
treadmill salt mine | a job involving drudgery and confinement |
spoil spoliation spoilation despoilation despoilment despoliation | the act of stripping and taking by force |
spoil spoiling spoilagebbb | the act of spoiling something by causing damage to it, her spoiling my dress was deliberate |
bank examination | an examination of the affairs and records of a bank by a state or federal bank examiner |
bank martin bank swallow sand martin Riparia riparia | swallow of the northern hemisphere that nests in tunnels dug in clay or sand banks |
saddle horse riding horse mount | a lightweight horse kept for riding only |
atomic pile atomic reactor pile chain reactor | a nuclear reactor that uses controlled nuclear fission to generate energy |
backing mount | something forming a back that is added for strengthening |
bank bank building | a building in which the business of banking transacted, the bank is on the corner of Nassau and Witherspoon |
bottle bank | a place where bottles can be deposited for recycling |
bus jalopy heap | a car that is old and unreliable, the fenders had fallen off that old bus |
claymore mine claymore | an antipersonnel land mine whose blast is aimed at the oncoming enemy |
coal mine coalpit | a mine where coal is dug from the ground |
copper mine | a mine where copper is dug from the ground |
dump | a place where supplies can be stored, an ammunition dump |
dump truck dumper tipper truck tipper lorry tip truck tipper | truck whose contents can be emptied without handling, the front end of the platform can be pneumatically raised so that the load is discharged by gravity |
floating mine marine mine | an explosive mine designed to destroy ships that bump into it |
goldmine gold mine | a mine where gold ore is found |
goldmine gold mine | a good source of something that is desired |
lake dwelling pile dwelling | dwelling built on piles in or near a lake, specifically in prehistoric villages |
land mine ground-emplaced mine booby trap | an explosive mine hidden underground, explodes when stepped on or driven over |
magnetic mine | (nautical) a marine mine that is detonated by a mechanism that responds to magnetic material (as the steel hull of a ship) |
mine | explosive device that explodes on contact, designed to destroy vehicles or ships or to kill or maim personnel |
mine | excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted |
mine detector | detector consisting of an electromagnetic device, used to locate explosive mines |
mount setting | a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place, the diamond was in a plain gold mount |
oyster bed oyster bank oyster park | a workplace where oysters are bred and grown |
piggy bank penny bank | a child's coin bank (often shaped like a pig) |
pile nap | the yarn (as in a rug or velvet or corduroy) that stands up from the weave, for uniform color and texture tailors cut velvet with the pile running the same direction |
pile spile piling stilt | a column of wood or steel or concrete that is driven into the ground to provide support for a structure |
pile driver | a machine that drives piling into the ground |
salt mine | a mine where salt is dug |
savings bank coin bank money box bank | a container (usually with a slot in the top) for keeping money at home, the coin bank was empty |
sheet pile sheath pile sheet piling | a pile in a row of piles driven side by side to retain earth or prevent seepage |
silver mine | a mine where silver ore is dug |
snowbank snow bank | a mound or heap of snow |
sperm bank | a depository for storing sperm |
strip mine | an open mine (usually for coal) where the seams run close to the surface |
sulphur mine sulfur mine | a mine where sulphur is dug from the ground |
vault bank vault | a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables |
voltaic pile pile galvanic pile | battery consisting of voltaic cells arranged in series, the earliest electric battery devised by Volta |