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▪ I. banking, vbl. n.|ˈbæŋkɪŋ|
[Several distinct formations, from bank in various senses.]
1. a. The business of a banker; the keeping or management of a bank.
1735Berkeley Querist (L.) Banking brings no treasure into the kingdom. 1834J. W. Gilbart Hist. Banking 9 So early as the year 1349..banking was carried on by the drapers of Barcelona. 1883H. Macleod Banking vi. §3 The very essence of ‘Banking’ is to receive money as a Mutuum.
b. attrib.
1779Arnot Hist. Edin. iv. iv. (1816) 411 Those abuses which had crept into the banking business. 1809R. Langford Introd. Trade 20 Without regard to banking hours. 1861Goschen For. Exch. 33 The primary cause which makes England the great banking centre of the world. 1881Builder 8 Oct. (Advt.), Solid Mahogany Banking Counter.
2. The construction of banks or embankments.
1610W. Folkingham Art of Survey ii. ii. 50 Sometimes this Compound Boundage implies a mutuall propertie or duty participable to the Conterminants, as bancking, balking, [etc.]. 1712J. James tr. Dézallier d'Argenville's Gardening ii. ii. 106 It is call'd Earthing or Banking up a Stake, when you cause Earth to be brought, and make a Bank about the foot of it. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., With respect to the water which is to be kept out, this is called banking. 1818Cobbett Resid. U.S. (1822) 181 Banking, hedging, they know nothing about. They have no idea of the use of a bill-hook. 1845C. M. Kirkland Western Clearings 103 ‘Banking up’..consists in piling earth round the foundations. 1865Nation (U.S.) I. 683 He has so much a task for banking.
3. Embankment.
1776G. Semple Building in Water xv. 101 The banking..is to extend from Pier to Pier. Ibid. 107 The banking or artificial Bed of the River. 1853Kane Grinnell Exp. xxxv. (1856) 321, I observed one spot where the banking remained.
4. Fishing on the Newfoundland (or other) Bank.
1842J. A. Park Mar. Insur. I. ii. 100 §2 Upon their arrival, ships are..employed in banking. 1848Arnould Mar. Insur. (1866) I. i. v. 273 After their arrival at Newfoundland, engaged for some time in fishing (called banking).
5. In Watchmaking: Limitation of the motion of the balance, by the banking-pins or banking-screw.
1870Eng. Mech. 7 Jan. 403/1 It consists in placing the banking pins at the tail of the lever. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 386/2 In this escapement it is necessary to limit the motion of the balance to one half turn, measured from its repose, which is technically called ‘banking.’ 1884F. J. Britten Watch and Clockm. 29 [The] Banking Screw [is]..an adjustable screw in the chronometer escapement.
6. banking-ground (in U.S. lumber-trade): a place where logs are brought to a river bank.
1880Lumberman's Gaz. 28 Jan., The banking ground is about 125 feet above the bed of the river.
7. On a road or track: see quot. 1904.
1904Goodchild & Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 40/1 Banking of cycle tracks, the raising of the outer edge of a bend in the track to counteract the centrifugal force. 1905Cycling 26 Apr. 362/1 Herne Hill track is now in very good condition. The banking is not so steep as the Palace track. 1937Times 13 Apr. p. viii/2 The danger of vehicles leaving the road at bends..has during recent years been counter-balanced..by the process known as ‘banking’ or super-elevating.
▪ II. ˈbanking, ppl. a.1
[f. bank v. + -ing2.]
That keeps a bank or follows the profession of a banker.
1641Milton Ch. Discip. ii. Wks. (1851) 65 That banking den of theeves. 1677A. Yarranton Eng. Impr. 18 Any of the banking Goldsmiths or Merchants.
▪ III. ˈbanking, ppl. a.2
[f. bank v.1 9.]
Forming into banks.
c1867‘Mark Twain’ Sketches in Wks. XIX. 372 A weird picture, that small company of frantic men fighting the banking snows. |