A person who rides along a riverbank or someone employed to ride horseback for banking or financial business (archaic usage).
Compound of 'bank' and 'rider', likely from historical contexts where messengers or agents traveled by horseback alongside banks of rivers or to conduct banking business across distances.
This obscure term captures a forgotten era when financial information had to travel as fast as a horse could gallop—in a world where communication could only move at 15 mph, distance was the biggest enemy of commerce!
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