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banked
(encz) | banked,nakloněný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Banked
(gcide) | Bank \Bank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Banked(b[a^][ng]kt); 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.
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2. To heap or pile up; as, to bank sand.
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3. To pass by the banks of. [Obs.] --Shak.
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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.
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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.
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banked
(encz) | banked,nakloněný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Double-banked
(gcide) | Double-banked \Dou"ble-banked`\, a.
Applied to a kind of rowing in which the rowers sit side by
side in twos, a pair of oars being worked from each bank or
thwart. Double-barreled |
Embanked
(gcide) | Embank \Em*bank"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embanked; p. pr. & vb.
n. Embanking.] [Pref. em- + bank. Cf. Imbank.]
To throw up a bank so as to confine or to defend; to protect
by a bank of earth or stone.
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Imbanked
(gcide) | Imbank \Im*bank"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Imbanked; p. pr. & vb.
n. Imbanking.] [Pref. im- in + bank. Cf. Embank.]
To inclose or defend with a bank or banks. See Embank.
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