banker

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1. 1

   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

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

3. 3

   obsoletoA money changer.

4. 4

   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[.]

5. 5

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

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1. 1

   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

2. 2

   A ditcher; a drain digger.

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

3. 3

   Synonym of browman.

4. 4

   A watercourse filled from bank to bank.

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1. 1

   A bet that is almost certain to succeed.

2. 2

   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.

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1. 1

   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.

   Because of a shortage of W.R. pannier tanks, two "E6" 0-6-2 tanks, Nos. 32410/5, were engaged as bankers on the Folkestone Harbour branch at the beginning of March; [...].

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bankers