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单词 banket
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banketn.1

Probably a misreading of or misprint for banker; see quot. 1763 at banker n.4 1.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > one conducting banking business > manager, director, or proprietor of bank
bank mastera1625
banker1670
bank director1695
bank manager1734
bank president1819
banket1846
central banker1930
1846 W. M. Buchanan Technol. Dict. 120/1 Banket, in bricklaying, a piece of wood of about eight inches square, and nine feet in length, on which to cut the bricks. [Also in later dictionaries.]
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online September 2019).

banketn.2

Brit. /baŋˈkɛt/, /ˈbaŋkᵻt/, U.S. /bæŋˈkɛt/, /ˈbæŋkət/, South African English /bʌŋˈket/, /ˈbæŋkət/
Origin: A borrowing from Afrikaans. Etymon: Afrikaans banket.
Etymology: < Afrikaans banket (late 19th cent.), transferred use of banket confection resembling almond hardbake (1844 in South African Dutch as banketjes (with diminutive suffix)) < Dutch banket any of various kinds of sweet food (16th cent.), specific use of banket banquet n.1 (compare sense 3b at that entry).
Mining (originally South African) and Geology.
A gold-bearing conglomerate of quartz pebbles in a quartzitic matrix found in the Witwatersrand, South Africa (also with capital initial); (in extended use) any conglomerate of quartz pebbles in a quartzitic matrix visually similar to this. Usually as a mass noun; also banket conglomerate.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > rock > composite rock > [noun] > conglomerate > specific
pinnel1766
grauwacke1794
unguilite1799
greywacke1805
yolky-stone1805
nagelfluh1808
coombe rock1822
pebble bed1849
breccia1856
ceppo1881
banket1886
ouklip1892
crush-conglomerate1893
basal conglomerate1900
calcrete1902
rudite1904
fanglomerate1912
beach-rock1919
1886 Diamond Fields Advertiser in J. Crwys-Williams S. Afr. Despatches (1989) 81 Banket or Almond reef, the same as Witwatersrand, has been discovered in large quantities at Schoonspruit.
1890 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 12 356 The auriferous lodes are for the most part conglomerate (Banket).
1954 ‘D. Divine’ Golden Fool vi. 57 Another smaller outcrop of the same stone—banket, he called it—a sort of fruit cake of pebbles and small pieces in a conglomerate.
1965 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 53 1195 The uraninite-bearing pyritic quartz-pebble conglomerates known as bankets..in the undated Lower Proterozoic strata of Brazil... These bankets form the gold-uranium ores of the Witwatersrand..and the uranium ores of Blind River.
2007 E. H. Macdonald Handbk. Gold Explor. & Eval. iii. 141 Basal conglomerates associated with each fresh cycle of erosion are the most important deposits in many alluvial gold areas. Notable examples are the Banket conglomerates of the Witwatersrand.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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