slang. [Origin uncertain: see hearsay account in B. Hooper, Leather Manufact. (1891), 65.] A sixpence. Also attrib.
1811. Lex. Balatr., Tanner, a sixpence.
1812. J. H. Vaux, Flash Dict., Tanner, a sixpence. Three and a tanner.
1844. Dickens, Mart. Chuz., xxxvii. ‘How much a-piece?’ The man in the monument replied, ‘a Tanner.’ It seemed a low expression, compared with the monument.
1908. Daily Express, 3 Feb., 1/1. Seventeen tannercabs [sixpenny cabs] made their appearance in the streets on Saturday, and were in great demand.
