Noun
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. Mark Twain
I do what I do, and write what I write, without calculating what is worth what and so on. Fortunately, I am not a banker or an accountant. I feel that there is a time when a political statement needs to be made and I make it. Arundhati Roy
I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker. Robertson Davies
Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker. Ron Chernow
A father is a banker provided by nature. French Proverb
Ask the banker about gold, the jeweler about gems. Turkish Proverb