banjo frame (banjofram)

A rectangular frame of metal, fitted in the stern of a ship, for carrying and hoisting or lowering a two bladed screw-propeller. It works in guides in the plain; an artificial embankment, especially for military use. They cast up a bank against the city. 2 Sam. xx. 15. 2. Any steep acclivity, as one rising from a river, a lake, or the sea, or forming the side of a ravine, or the steep side of a hillock on a plain. Tiber trembled underneath her banks . Shak . , J. C., i. 1. Moored against the gra y bank of the brimming river, the black ships were taking in hides and furs. G. W. Cable, Creoles of Louisiana, p. 104. 3. An elevation or rising ground in the sea or the bed of a river, composed of sand or other soil, and either partly above water or covered everywhere with shoal water; a shoal; a shallow: as, the banks of Newfoundland; the Dogger bank in the North Sea. -4t. A bench or long seat; also, a stage or platform to speak from. See mountebank. IMG:content-1632.png:[blocks in formation] The heads of the couches were towards the walls; and so far as one can gather from the vague descriptions which have come down to us, the ends of them towards the fire served as a bank to sit upon. W. K. Sullivan , Int. to O'Curry's Anc. Irish, p. cccxlix. 5. A bench in a galley for rowers; hence, the number of rowers seated on one bench. A galley was double-banked when there were two tiers or rows of benches, one above the other, triple-banked when there were three tiers, and so on. In modern phraseology, a boat is single-banked when the oars are pulled each by one man, the men sitting one upon a seat and alternately on opposite sides of a boat; it is double-banked when two men sit upon one seat, each man with an oar. An oar is single banked when worked by one man, and double-banked when worked by two men. Meantime the king with gifts a ve el stores, Supplies the banks with twenty chosen oars. Dryden. 6t. In law , the bench or seat upon which the judges sat. See banc.-7. A bench or row of keys in an organ or similar instrument. 8. In carp ., a long piece of timber, especially of fir-wood unslit, from 4 to 10 inches square. -9. In coal - mining : (a) The surface around the mouth of a shaft: in this sense nearly synonymous with the Cornish gra , to bank being the same as to gra . (b) In England, the whole or one end or side of a working-place under ground. (c) In Pennsylvania, a coal-working opened by water-level drifts. Penn. Geol. Surv. Glo ary . (d) In England (Cumber land), a large heap or stack of coal on the surface. Gresley.-10. The support of the moving carriage of a printing-pre .-11. In the fire-chamber of a gla furnace, one of the banked-up parts which support the melting-pots.-12. In printing : (a) The table used by a hand-pre man for his unprinted paper and his printed sheets. (b) A frame, with sloping top, on which are placed the galleys for use in collecting and proving the type set: mainly used in newspaper composing-rooms.-13. In thread or yarn manufacture, a creel in which rows of bobbins are held. -Bank of clouds, a ma of clouds appearing as if piled up in the form of a bank. - Bank oil, menhaden-oil.Spoil bank, in civil engineering , earth obtained from distant points in the line of a work, or purchased for use where a sufficient quantity for the needed fillings is not furnished by the cuttings. bank