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Banker vs Wastel - What's the difference?

banker | wastel |

As nouns the difference between banker and wastel

is that banker is banker (who works in the banking industry) while wastel is (obsolete) a kind of fine white bread or cake.

banker

English

Etymology 1

From bank + , after French banquier

Noun

(wikipedia banker) (en 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.
  • (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.
    • (Weale)
    Related terms
    * bankership * banking

    Etymology 2

    From bank (An elevation, or rising ground, under the sea) + -er

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A vessel employed in the cod fishery on the banks of Newfoundland.
  • (UK, dialect) A ditcher; a drain digger.
  • * 1941 , (Ernestine Hill), My Love Must Wait , A&R Classics 2013, p. 6:
    • 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)
  • (rail transport, British, Australia) A railway locomotive that can be attached to the rear of a train to assist it in climbing an incline.
    • Synonyms
    * (railway locomotive) bank engine (UK), helper engine (US)

    wastel

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A kind of fine white bread or cake.
    • Roasted flesh or milk and wastel bread. — Chaucer.
    The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. — Sir Walter Scott.
    (Webster 1913)