Emily Dickinson Lexicon

bank (-s), n. [ME < Germanic 'shelf, bench'; see bench, n.] (webplay: “house used for a bank”, gold, house, land, merchants, pay, payable, pass, rowers, sea, side, shares, signed, silver, stock, sweep, trafficks).

1. Heap; accumulation; gathering; cumulus cloud; long nimbus mass on the horizon.
2. Treasury; money depository; place where funds are kept safe; [fig.] flower bed; garden plot.
3. Shore; coast; strand; rise of ground; elevation of earth on the side of a body of water.
4. Pile; support; burial cushion; casket pillow; swath of material surrounding a corpse.
5. Platform; mound; terrace.
6. Channel; river passage; steep ridge of earth at the water's edge; [fig.] vessel; artery; [fig.] boundary; border; margin; limit.