noun
General Slang
Banker
· noun · construction
A mason who cuts and shapes building stone at a workbench.
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Definitions
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A stonemason who works at a 'banker' (the heavy bench), cutting and dressing blocks to shape before they ever reach the wall. The bench-bound counterpart to the fixer mason who sets the stone on site. Skilled, slow, expensive work.
“The cathedral restoration needed three bankers full-time just to recut the window mullions.”
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The workbench itself — the squat, sturdy table a stonemason cuts on. Confusingly, the worker is named after the bench.
“He swept the dust off the banker and laid out a fresh block of Portland.”
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Banker In A Sentence
The cathedral restoration needed three bankers full-time just to recut the window mullions.
He swept the dust off the banker and laid out a fresh block of Portland.
Origin & Usage
From French 'banc' (bench), via the masonry workbench the trade was named after.
Variants
banker mason
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