DCHP-2

bank ((1)) ((n.)) 1 DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 1 n. (usually plural)

  one of the more elevated portions of the submerged plateau lying off the Atlantic coast of Canada.

  See also: Banks  

  • 1584  (1935)  . . . Frenchmen . . . brought their banke fishe which they took on the Bancke, forty or three-score leagues from Newfoundelande. . . .
  • 1849  . . . no fishing boats were sent to the banks of Newfoundland.
  • 1931  These platforms over which the sea is shallow are called "banks". . . .
  • 1959  Ah, what memories the names of these famous schooners stir in the hearts of all bank fishermen.

• 2 n. — Lumbering

  a place at the side of a river or lake where logs are piled in winter for rafting downstream after break-up.

  See also: bank ((1)) ((v.))  

  • 1829  The Shantymen . . . cut down the pine trees, and . . . draw the logs to what is termed the bank, with oxen.
  • 1912  . . . they began hurling the logs down the bank, rolling, bumping, splashing into the lake amid the cheers of the body of young woodsmen. . . .