a mound, pile, or ridge; a group or series of objects; an amount or stock of money; a batch of paper money. See also balk, bar, heap, mass.
Examples: bank of ants; of books; of clouds; of electric lights; of fog; of hill ants; of judges [a full court in which the judges are “in bank”]; of mist; of money; of mussels; of oars; of organ keys; of oysters; of rememberances; of sand; of snow; of swans [on the ground].