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Definition of Bank swallow

Bank swallow
Bank Bank (b[a^][ng]k), n. [OE. banke; akin to E. bench, and prob. of Scand. origin.; cf. Icel. bakki. See Bench.] 1. A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow. They cast up a bank against the city. --2 Sam. xx. 15. 2. A steep acclivity, as the slope of a hill, or the side of a ravine. 3. The margin of a watercourse; the rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow. Tiber trembled underneath her banks. --Shak. 4. An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea; a shoal, shelf, or shallow; as, the banks of Newfoundland. 5. (Mining) (a) The face of the coal at which miners are working. (b) A deposit of ore or coal, worked by excavations above water level. (c) The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank. Bank beaver (Zo["o]l.), the otter. [Local, U.S.] Bank swallow, a small American and European swallow (Clivicola riparia) that nests in a hole which it excavates in a bank.
Bank swallow
Bank swallow Bank" swal"low See under 1st Bank, n.

Meaning of Bank swallow from wikipedia

- common sand martin, and in the Americas as the bank swallow, is a migratory p****erine bird in the swallow family Hirundinidae. It has a wide range in summer...
- responsible for the same species being called sand martin in the Old World and bank swallow in the New World.) The family Hirundinidae was introduced (as Hirundia)...
- rough-winged swallow (Stelgidopteryx serripennis) is a small, migratory swallow. It is very similar to the southern rough-winged swallow, Stelgidopteryx...
- the bank swallow, Lipton and Barash state: For about four days immediately prior to egg-laying, when co****tions lead to fertilization, the male bank swallow...
- The cave swallow (Petrochelidon fulva) is a medium-sized, squarish-tailed swallow belonging to the same genus as the more familiar and widespread cliff...
- steep sandstone cliffs that provide a nesting habitat for a colony of bank swallows (Riparia riparia). The last remnants of a sand dune ecosystem that once...
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- pelican (Pelec**** erythrorhynchos) Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) Bank swallow (Riparia riparia) Belted kingfisher (Ceryle alcyon) Black-bellied plover...
- hummingbird Australian shelduck Aztec parakeet Bengalese finch (domestic) Bank swallow Barn owls Bearded vulture Bicolored antbird Black-billed magpie Black-Capped...
- in South Dakota. They also prey on ground-nesting birds, such as the bank swallow, or sand martin (Riparia riparia), and the burrowing owl (Athene cunicularia)...