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.-a money changer.-the dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house.-a vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of newfoundland.-a ditcher; a drain digger.-the stone bench on which masons cut or square their work.