unbank

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English

Etymology

un- +‎ bank

Verb

unbank (third-person singular simple present unbanks, present participle unbanking, simple past and past participle unbanked)

  1. (transitive) To remove a bank from; to open by, or as if by, the removal of a bank.
    • 1842, Henry Taylor, Edwin the Fair:
      We may forget them, ay forget the world,
      Its cares, its kingdoms, and unbank the hours
  2. (transitive) To make (a fire) burn up by raking off the ashes from the top, opening draughts, etc.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “unbank”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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