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banker
A vessel employed in fishing on the banks of Newfoundland. "There were employed in the fisheries 123...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
a river full up to the top of thebanks. Compare Shakspeare: «Like a proud river, peering o'erhis bounds.» (`King John,' III. i. 23.)
1888. Cassell's `Picturesque Australasia,' vol, iii. p. 175
«The Murrumbidgee was running a `banker' – – water right up to thebanks.»
1890. Lyth, `Golden South,' c. vii. p. 52:
«The driver stated that he had heard the river was `a banker.'»
1896. H. Lawson, `When the World was Wide,' p. 45:
«The creeks were bankers, and the flood Was forty miles round Bourke.»
Ibid. p. 100:
«Till the river runs a banker,
All stained with yellow mud.»
A vessel employed in fishing on the banks of Newfoundland. "There were employed in the fisheries 123...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.