Definition

• A slang name for the English sixpence ; it probably owes its origin to the fact that it is easily bent. Dickens in Sketches by Boz says " Niver mind the loss of two bob and a bender; " and Thackeray in The Newcomes (xi) has " By cock and pye it is not worth a bender. "

Quelle

• Frey's Dictionary (American Journal of Numismatics, Vol. 50, 1916)

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