bank

bank
   obsolete
   to fail in business
   The bank was the bench on which Lombard money-lenders conducted their business. It was turned over — rupted — if they failed to meet their commitments. In the late 19thcentury banks were failing regularly and the phrase was still in use:
    Dunnot ye know at Turner's is banked. (M. Taylor, 1890)
   A banker was a bankrupt, which seems odd to us today when it is the bankers who do most of the bankrupting of others.

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