بانك

बांक bāṅk[S. वङ्क, and cf. next], s.m. Crookedness, curvature;crook, curve, bend, winding, sweep; bend or reach of a river, winding course of a stream; craftiness, duplicity; wickedness, offence, fault;—a hook or curved instrument to cut bamboos and sugarcane with (=bāṅkā); a dagger with a curved blade (in this and the following senses the word is usually fem.); a semicircular armlet (syn. bāzū); a kind of anklet; a settee; exercise with the dagger:—bāṅk-paṭṭā, s.m. A method of fencing with a (wooden) dagger and cutlass.