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A wall, or embankment, to resist encroachments of the sea.

Overgrown with sedge. On the gentle Severn''s sedgy bank. Shak.

and lay hold of; to gripe or grasp suddenly; to reach and grasp. For by no means the high bank he could seize. Spenser. Seek you to seize and gripe into your hands The royalties and rights of banished Hereford Shak.

A lining of planks or boards (rarely of metal) for protecting an embankment.

A sand bank in the sea, or a rock, or ledge of rocks, rendering the water shallow, and dangerous to ships. On the tawny sands and shelves. Milton. On the secret shelves with fury cast. Dryden.

n about borrowing money hastily and temporarily, as for the payment of one's notes at the bank. [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated in value; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar. [U. S.]

To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest. Shipwrecking storms and direful thunders break. Shak.

A sandbank or bar which makes the water shoal. The god himself with ready trident stands, And opes the deep, and spreads the moving sands, Then heaves them off the shoals. Dryden.

A banker, or changer of money. [East Indies]

question sleeps for the present; the law sleeps. How sweet the moonlight sleep upon this bank! Shak.

Sloping. "Down the slope hills." Milton. A bank not steep, but gently slope. Bacon.

Hence, bankruptcy. [Colloq.]

A bank of drifted snow.

sense, of unsound or hazardous transactions; as, to speculate in coffee, in sugar, or in bank stock.

The slough, or cast skin, of a serpent or other animal. [Obs.] Bacon. Spoil bank, a bank formed by the earth taken from an excavation, as of a canal. -- The spoils system, the theory or practice of regarding public and their emoluments as so much plunder to be distributed among their active partisans by those who are…

Water retained by an embankment; a pool water. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Robert of Brunne.

an individual or a firm employs in business; fund; in the United States, the capital of a bank or other company, in the form of transferable shares, each of a certain amount; money funded in government securities, called also the public funds; in the plural, property consisting of shares in joint-stock companies, or in…

One who is a holder or proprietor of stock in the public funds, or in the funds of a bank or other stock company.

a fluid or whatever is likened to fluids; as, tears streamed from her eyes. Beneath those banks where rivers stream. Milton.