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banker

• 1 n. a vessel engaged in fishing on the Banks.

  See also: Banks  

  • 1777  (1792)  From the boats-master I was informed, that the Americans had taken His Majesty's frigate Fox and several bankers upon the banks of Newfoundland.
  • 1960  New vessels--craft of fifty tons or less, and less than half the size of latter-day bankers--were soon carrying Lunenburgers to the offshore banks.

• 2 n. a man engaged in fishing on the Banks.

  See also: Banks  

  • 1907  The fishermen of all lands have to encounter the perils of the deep, but none have to face the risks that the "bankers" do.
  • 1958  A Banker's life is hard and dangerous but it's much freer than life on the square-riggers where a man's very soul can be at the mercy of a bullying mate.