banker🔊

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.

The dealer in a casino, or one who keeps the bank in a banking game.

(obsolete) A money changer.

The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.1849-1850, {{w|John Weale}}, ''Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms used in Architecture, Building, and Engineering''

(stationery) A type of envelope with a diamond shape or V-flap that opens on the long edge. +

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

(dialect) A ditcher; a drain digger.

(mining) (browman).

(colloquial) A watercourse filled from bank to bank.

(gambling) A bet that is almost certain to succeed.

(by extension) A very safe option.

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