banker

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   One who conducts the business of banking; one who, individually, or as a member of a company, keeps an establishment for the deposit or loan of money, or for traffic in money, bills of exchange, etc.

   I have a good banker in this city, but I would not wish to draw upon the house until the time when I shall draw for a round sum.

2. 2
   noun

   The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.

   [T]he new traceries, mullions, transoms, shafts, pinnacles, and battlements standing on the bankers half worked[.]

3. 3
   noun

   A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.

   May 20 1815, John Quincy Adams, letter to a merchant I think the 584 Bankers may be put down 36,540 tons, navigated by 4,627 men and boys

4. 4
   noun

   A ditcher; a drain digger.

   But this was no storm, the bankers could have told him. It was break of the year.

5. 5
   noun

   A very safe option.

   When Jose came to Manchester United, two and a half years ago, this was the no-brainer, the banker, the one which couldn't fail. The one who had never failed.

6. 6
   noun

   A railway locomotive that can be attached to the rear of a train to assist it in climbing an incline.

   Between them these engines work passenger trains on the Keith line, and also act as bankers up to Dava when required.

7. 7
   noun

   the person in charge of the bank in a gambling game

8. 8
   noun

   a financier who owns or is an executive in a bank

Etymology

From bank (“an elevation, or rising ground”) + -er (relational noun suffix) or + -er (occupational suffix).