n. 25B6; noun
the banks of Lake Michigan : EDGE, side, embankment, levee, border, verge, boundary, margin, rim, fringe; poetic/literary marge, bourn, skirt.
a grassy bank : SLOPE, rise, incline, gradient, ramp; mound, ridge, hillock, hummock, knoll; bar, reef, shoal, shelf; accumulation, pile, heap, mass, drift.
a bank of switches : ARRAY, row, line, tier, group, series.
riparian, riverain.
25B6; verb
they banked up the earth : PILE (UP), heap (up), stack (up); accumulate, amass, assemble, put together.
the aircraft banked : TILT, LEAN, tip, slant, incline, angle, slope, list, camber, pitch, dip, cant.