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banker
n. a river full up to the top of thebanks. Compare Shakspeare: «Like a proud river, peering o'erhis...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
A vessel employed in fishing on the banks of Newfoundland. "There were employed in the fisheries 1232 vessels, viz. 584 to the Banks, 648 to the Bay and Labrador; the Bankers may be put down at 36,540 tons."
The vessels that fish at the Labrador and Bay are not so valuable as the bankers, more particularly those from Maine, Connecticut and Rhode Island.--J. Q. Adams on the Fisheries, p. 219.
n. a river full up to the top of thebanks. Compare Shakspeare: «Like a proud river, peering o'erhis...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris