Definitions for banc

banc banc

Spelling: [bangk]
IPA: /bæŋk/

Banc is a 4 letter English word.

You can make 26 anagrams from letters in banc (abcn).

Definitions for banc

noun

  1. the seat on which judges sit in court.
  2. in banc, with all the judges of a court present; as a full court:

Origin of banc

1250-1300; Middle English Old French Germanic: bench

Examples for banc

I met a dear farmer in a corn field and he gave me a seat on his banc in church: so I was quite comfortable.

The tide was high, and the ragged rocks of the banc des Violets in the south and the Corbiore in the west were all but hidden.

I remember his having come on foot, and hearing that I should not require my char--banc to return, he engaged it.

Char--banc, shar′-a-bang, n. a long light vehicle with transverse seats.

The following morning at nine oclock I set out in tolerable weather on a char--banc, drawn by two horses of the country.

It is from this animal that the French have named their banc des Meduses.

In some models these seats stretch back throughout the length of the carriage, in which case it is a char--banc.

From the French banc we borrowed the word to use in the old expression a "bank of oars."

Here comes a family of peasants on an old broken down char- banc.

She would often ride over on horseback or drive in the char--banc to see us, and would spend whole days with me and my father.

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