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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.
usurer(offering loans, esp. at very high interest); loan shark(independent, offering loans at high interest); saraf(early modern Middle East & India); shroff(early modern India & SE Asia)
1944 January and February, W. McGowan Gradon, “Forres as a Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 23:
Between them these engines work passenger trains on the Keith line, and also act as bankers up to Dava when required.
1960 May, “Motive Power Miscellany: Southern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 314:
Because of a shortage of W.R. pannier tanks, two "E6" 0-6-2 tanks, Nos. 32410/5, were engaged as bankers on the Folkestone Harbour branch at the beginning of March; [...].