[f. prec. sb. + -ER1.]
1. A silver shilling; = THIRTEEN B. 2. Thirteener and a baubee: see prec. A. 4 b.
1762. Naval Chron., XXIV. 369. Cheat the sheriff out of his thirteener and a baubee!
1811. Henry & Isabella, I. 289. I have scraped together a few thirteeners honestly, for my old age.
1836. T. Hook, G. Gurney, ii. Says the padré, ‘tip us the thirteeners, and you are as clean as a whistle for the next twelve months.’
2. a. Cricket. A hit for thirteen runs. b. See quot. 1891.
1893. Black & White, 29 July, 139/2. Of cricket there are anecdotes galore; how a ‘thirteener’ was once run out on the Marlborough ground.
1900. Westm. Gaz., 5 July, 3/2. But F. P. Miller once hit a ‘thirteener’ at single wicket, which is considered a record.
1891. Cent. Dict., Thirteener,… the thirteenth one of any number of things; specifically, in whist, the last card of a suit left in the hands of a player after the other twelve have been played.
