ppl. a. [f. BANK sb.1 or v.1]

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  1.  Having a bank or banks.

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1623.  Bingham, Xenophon, 108. A hollow-bank’d brooke.

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1649.  Blith, Eng. Improv. Impr. (1652), 11. One acre plain or bancked.

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1881.  Ethel Coxon, A Basil Plant, II. 24. She rambled on till she came to the banked hedge skirting the field.

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  2.  Heaped, piled up; esp. in Banked up, said also of a fire when covered up with fresh fuel so as to burn away but slowly.

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1567.  Drant, Horace Epist., B vj. Ritche in banqued golde.

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1868.  ‘Holme Lee,’ B. Godfrey, lvii. 327. Banked-up … clouds.

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