BUND

I. noun Etymology: Hindi baṅd & Urdu band, from Persian Date: 1810 an embankment used especially in India to control the flow of water, an embanked thoroughfare along a river or the sea especially in the Far East, II. noun Usage: often capitalized Etymology: Yiddish ~ & German Bund, from Middle High German bunt; akin to Old English byndel Date: 1850 a political association: as, a Jewish socialist organization founded in czarist Russia in 1897, a pro-Nazi German-American organization of the 1930s, ~ist noun, often capitalized