Helen Fenton

Bandy: Definition and part of speech

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Bandy

  1. n. A carriage or cart used in India, esp. one drawn by bullocks.
  2. n. A club bent at the lower part for striking a ball at play; a hockey stick.
  3. v. t. To give and receive reciprocally; to exchange.
  4. v. t. To toss about, as from man to man; to agitate.
  5. v. i. To content, as at some game in which each strives to drive the ball his own way.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Banana: Definition and part of speech

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Banana

  1. n. A perennial herbaceous plant of almost treelike size (Musa sapientum); also, its edible fruit. See Musa.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Bank: Definition and part of speech

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Bank

  1. n. A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.
  2. n. 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.
  3. n. A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine.
  4. n. The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow.
  5. n. An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland.
  6. n. The face of the coal at which miners are working.
  7. n. A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level.
  8. n. A sort of table used by printers.
  9. n. A bench, or row of keys belonging to a keyboard, as in an organ.
  10. n. 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.
  11. 1n. 1 A bench; a high seat, or seat of distinction or judgment; a tribunal or court.
  12. 1n. 1 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.