"Bank" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH

1. A beuch or seat; the bench or tribunal occupied by the judges; the seat of judgment; a court. The full bench, or full court; the assembly of all the judges of a court. A “sitting in bank” is a meeting of ail the judges of a court, usually for the

A sort of table used by printers.

The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a
lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow.

An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal,
shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland.

The bench or seat upon which the judges sit.

A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a
tribunal or court.

The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to
bank.

A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a
ravine.

To keep a bank; to carry on the business of a banker.

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.

In certain games, as dominos, a fund of pieces from which the
players are allowed to draw.

To deposit money in a bank; to have an account with a
banker.

A bench, as for rowers in a galley; also, a tier of oars.

The face of the coal at which miners are working.

To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.

To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or
fortify with a bank; to embank.

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.

A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water
level.

A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an
organ.

The building or office used for banking purposes.

To deposit in a bank.

A fund from deposits or contributions, to be used in
transacting business; a joint stock or capital.

An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange, or issue,
of money, and for facilitating the transmission of funds by drafts or
bills of exchange; an institution incorporated for performing one or
more of such functions, or the stockholders (or their representatives,
the directors), acting in their corporate capacity.

To pass by the banks of.

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.