Antonyms for bank up
| Grammar : Verb |
| Spell : bangk |
| Phonetic Transcription : bæŋk |
Definition of bank up
Origin :- "financial institution," late 15c., from either Old Italian banca or Middle French banque (itself from the Italian word), both meaning "table" (the notion is of the moneylender's exchange table), from a Germanic source (cf. Old High German bank "bench"); see bank (n.2).
- Bank holiday is from 1871, though the tradition is as old as the Bank of England. To cry all the way to the bank was coined 1956 by flamboyant pianist Liberace, after a Madison Square Garden concert that was packed with patrons but panned by critics.
- As in stack : verb pile up
- He was in a bank up to the city once and he knows the bankin' trade.
- Extract from : « The Rise of Roscoe Paine » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- Then cover with three or four inches of hay, and bank up with soil.
- Extract from : « ABC of Vegetable Gardening » by Eben Eugene Rexford
- After filling the hole, bank up a steep mound of earth around the tree.
- Extract from : « The Apple » by Various
- There's a low place which we'll have to bank up, an' the thing's done.
- Extract from : « Added Upon » by Nephi Anderson
- These had been used to bank up the earth and to make two grooves in which the ascending and descending cages had once worked.
- Extract from : « She's All the World to Me » by Hall Caine
- These had been used to bank up the earth, and to make two grooves in which the ascending and descending cages had once worked.
- Extract from : « The Deemster » by Hall Caine
- The ground stretched from the bank up to the house in a grassy slope set with one or two alders and willows.
- Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 » by Various
- Why, I was just reading in the county paper about how the bank up at Jasper was robbed by two men last week.
- Extract from : « The Aeroplane Boys Flight » by John Luther Langworthy
- Shove 'em out on the hills and make 'em feed a little every day that's fit, and bank up them sheds and make 'em warmer.
- Extract from : « The Long Shadow » by B. M. Bower
- I'm no good for anything but bush work, as you know, or I might apply for the billet there is vacant in the bank up yonder.
- Extract from : « Sheilah McLeod » by Guy Boothby
Synonyms for bank up
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