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noun

Banking n. The business of a bank or of a banker.

Banking house, an establishment or office in which, or a firm by whom, banking is done.

verb

Bank v. t. (past & past part. banked; pres. part. banking)

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

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

To pass by the banks of. (Obs.)

(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.

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.

Bank v. t. To deposit in a bank.

Bank v. i.

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

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

Bank v. i. (Aeronautics) To tilt sidewise in rounding a curve; said of a flying machine, an aerocurve, or the like.

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"Banking" Quotes from Famous Books

... out here yet. But there must be display of power; an army must be sent, without delay, to show the traitors that the game is up. Five thousand men from Cairo under a good general would do it. Will Nahoum send them? Does Kaid, the sick man, know? I'm not banking on Kaid. I think he's on his last legs. Unless pressure is put on him, unless some one takes him by the throat and says: If you don't relieve Claridge Pasha and the people with him, you will go to the crocodiles, Nahoum won't ...

— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker

... provinces once certainly, and three times it is believed, stopping in Montreal at St. Lawrence Hall, and banking four hundred and fifty-five dollars odd at the Ontario bank. This was his own money. I have myself seen his bank-book with the single entry of this amount. It was found in the room of Atzerott, at Kirkwood's Hotel. From this visit, whatever encouragement Booth received, he continued in systematic ...

— The Life, Crime and Capture of John Wilkes Booth • George Alfred Townsend

... full explanation of WELLS FARGO'S Banking Facilities in France may be obtained at the Branches of ...

— The Stars & Stripes, Vol 1, No 1, February 8, 1918, - The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 • American Expeditionary Forces

... the Encyclopedia to which we have made reference, I made the acquaintance of McCulloch, the distinguished writer of finances, who furnished the article on 'Banking.' ...

— Continental Monthly, Vol. I., No. IV., April, 1862 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... higher powers, some financial, some religious and some political. It faces a multitude of censorships, all of them very potent. It is censored by the Postoffice, by the Jewish advertisers, by the Catholic Church, by the Methodists, by the Prohibitionists, by the banking oligarchy of its town, and often by even more astounding authorities, including the Sinn Fein. Now and then a newspaper makes a valiant gesture of revolt, but it is only a gesture. There is not a single daily in the United States that would dare to discuss the problem of ...

— The American Credo - A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind • George Jean Nathan

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