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. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. A money changer. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] 3. The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house. [ 1913 Webster ] 4. A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland. Crabb. J. Q. Adams. [ 1913 Webster ] 5. A ditcher; a drain digger. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ] 6. The stone bench on which masons cut or square their work. Weale. [ 1913 Webster ] | 
