bank

bank has 42 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• n.. A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.
• n.. 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.
• n.. A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.
• n.. The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow.
• n.. An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland.
• n.. The face of the coal at which miners are working.
• n.. A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
• n.. The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank.
• v. t.. To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
• v. t.. To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.
• v. t.. To pass by the banks of.
• n.. A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.