An underwriter or controller of a card game.
An institution where one can place and borrow money and take care of financial affairs.
The ground at the top of a shaft.
A contiguous block of memory that is of fixed, hardware-dependent size, but often larger than a page and partitioning the memory such that two distinct banks do not overlap.
Money; profit.
An edge of river, lake, or other watercourse.
The incline of an aircraft, especially during a turn.
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
A row or panel of items stored or grouped together.
A row of keys on a musical keyboard or the equivalent on a typewriter keyboard.
An incline, a hill.
A slope of earth, sand, etc.; an embankment.
The sum of money etc. which the dealer or banker has as a fund from which to draw stakes and pay losses.
A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in transacting business; a joint stock or capital.
A branch office of such an institution.
A device used to store coins or currency.
An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shallow area of shifting sand, gravel, mud, and so forth (for example, a sandbank or mudbank).
A mass noun for a quantity of clouds.
The face of the coal at which miners are working.
A set of multiple adjacent drop targets.
A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.
A bench or seat for judges in court.
A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
In certain games, such as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the players are allowed to draw.
A safe and guaranteed place of storage for and retrieval of important items or goods.
A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
To put into a bank.
To arrange or order in a row.
To raise a mound or dike about; to enclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank.
To provide additional power for a train ascending a bank (incline) by attaching another locomotive.
To conceal in the rectum for use in prison.
To deal with a bank or financial institution, or for an institution to provide financial services to a client.
To cause (an aircraft) to bank.
To roll or incline laterally in order to turn.
To form into a bank or heap, to bank up.
To cover the embers of a fire with ashes in order to retain heat.
A group or pile of cards dealt out at the beginning of a patience or solitaire game to be used during play.
A reserve price in an auction.
Wine held back and aged before being sold.
A body of troops kept in the rear of an army drawn up for battle, reserved to support the other lines as occasion may require; a force or body of troops kept for an exigency.
Absence of color or decoration; the state of being left plain.
The act of reserving or keeping back; reservation; exception.
A tract of land reserved, or set apart, for a particular purpose
A resist.
Restraint of freedom in words or actions; backwardness; caution in personal behavior.
A preparation used on an object being electroplated to fix the limits of the deposit.
In exhibitions, a distinction indicating that the recipient will get a prize in the event of another person being disqualified.
A member of a team who does not participate from the start of the game, but can be used to replace tired or injured team-mates.
A tract of land set apart for the use of an Aboriginal group; Indian reserve (compare US reservation.)
Funds kept on hand to meet planned or unplanned financial requirements.
A natural resource known to exist but not currently exploited.
To keep back; to retain.
To book in advance; to make a reservation.
To keep in store for future or special use.