Bund

Quick meaning: Bund is a noun meaning A league or confederacy; especially the confederation of German states.

Meaning

A league or confederacy; especially the confederation of German states.

More Meanings

1. A group of foreign sympathizers of Nazi Germany, most notoriously before and during World War II.
2. (India) A perennial ("wet") or seasonal ("dry") pond constructed in a depression and in which fish are stored, typically for breeding.
3. An embankment.
4. To provide berms or other secondary enclosures to guard against accidental fluid spills within.
5. (India) Alternative form of bandh.
6. A secondary enclosure, typically consisting of a wall or berm, which surrounds a tank or fluid-handling mechanism, intended to contain any spills or leaks.

Example Sentences

RAIB said it could not find evidence to explain who built the earth bank, known as a bund, or why it was built.

Plant room floors are generally bunded and/or waterproofed to contain any leaks or spillages of liquids and fluids from faulty tanks, plant or pipe work.

A massive opening in the bund (embankment), specifically there to screen the quarry from view, was needed, along with a Midland Railway-style bridge carrying a historic bridleway.

The most important of these [secondary containment] provisions are bunds, which are enclosures capable of holding liquids that may escape from the vessels and pipes within the bund wall.

Word Forms

• bunds
• bunding
• bunded

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include confederation, federal, union, league, confederator, senate.

Related Dictionary Tools