Bank"er (&?;), n. [See the nouns Bank and the verbs derived from them.]
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.
2.
A money changer. [Obs.]
3.
The dealer, or one who keeps
the bank in
a gambling house.
4. A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland. Grabb. J. Q. Adams.
5. A ditcher; a drain digger. [Prov.
Eng.]
6. The stone bench on which masons cut or square
their work.
Weale.
Hear it pronounced