or thirteener, subs. (old).—An Irish shillings = 13d.: also THIRTEEN.
1837. R. H. BARHAM, The Ingoldsby Legends, ‘The Coronation.’
| For the Earl of Surrey, all in his hurry, | |
| Throwing the THIRTEENS, hit him in his eye. |
1847. THACKERAY, George de Barnwell [Punch, April 3 to 17]. By Wood’s THIRTEENERS, and the devil go wid ’em.
1851–61. H. MAYHEW, London Labour and the London Poor, I. 484. It was a shillin’ he gave me…. I niver heard it called a THIRTEENER before, but mother has.
1886. Notes and Queries, 7 S. i. 77. Colloquially it [the Irish shilling current prior to 1825–6] continued to be called a THIRTEEN … so late as 1835 to my knowledge.
