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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bank \bank\, v. t. imp.  p. p. bankedba^ngkt; p. pr. 
   vb. n. banking.
   1. to raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or
      fortify with a bank; to embank. "banked well with earth."
      --holland.
      1913 webster

   2. to heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.
      1913 webster

   3. to pass by the banks of. obs. --shak.
      1913 webster

   4. engineering to build a roadway or railroad with an
      inclination at a curve in the road, so as to counteract
      centrifugal forces acting on vehicles moving rapiudly
      around the curve, thus reducing the danger of vehicles
      overturning at a curve; as, the raceway was steeply banked
      at the curves.
      pjc

   to bank a fire, to bank up a fire, to cover the coals or
      embers with ashes or cinders, thus keeping the fire low
      but alive.
      1913 webster
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