Banker vs Barker - What's the difference?
banker | barker |
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.
(obsolete) A money changer.
The dealer, or one who keeps the bank in a gambling house.
The stone bench on which a mason cuts or squares his work.
A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
(UK, dialect) A ditcher; a drain digger.
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(rail transport, British, Australia) A railway locomotive that can be attached to the rear of a train to assist it in climbing an incline.
Someone or something who s.
A person employed to solicit customers by calling out to passersby, e.g. at a carnival.
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(video games) A video game mode where the action is demonstrated to entice someone to play the game.
(slang, dated) A pistol.
The spotted redshank.
A person that removes the from wood, or prepares it for use in tanning.
A machine used to remove the bark from wood.
As a noun banker
is banker (who works in the banking industry).As a proper noun barker is
a botanical plant name author abbreviation for botanist george barker (1776-1845).banker
English
Etymology 1
From bank + , after French banquierNoun
(wikipedia banker) (en noun)- (Weale)
Etymology 2
From bank (An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea) + -erNoun
(en noun)- But this was no storm, the bankers could have told him. It was break of the year.
- (Grabb)
Etymology 3
From . (Bank engine)Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (railway locomotive) bank engine (UK), helper engine (US)barker
English
(wikipedia barker)Etymology 1
From .Noun
(en noun)Fantasy of navigation, passage=Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shivering at high altitudes, there is a carnival barker with a bevy of pretty girls willing to dangle from a basket or parachute down to earth.}}
- (Charles Dickens)
Synonyms
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From .Noun
(en noun)- The profession of barker has been made largely obsolete by the introduction of more effective tanning agents, but it lives on as a surname.
- Run these logs through the barker so we can use them as fence posts.