thrift-box

plural thrift-boxes · alternative thrift box

1. datedA box or other receptacle in which savings are stored.

   A Thrift-Box (as it is vulgarly called) is put up againſt the Wall, and every Cuſtomer puts in ſomething.

   1777, John Brand, Observations on Popular Antiquities, page 164

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   Under any circumstances, a boy or girl would be greatly pained if, after storing the savings of months or years, the thrift-box should be missing when the contents were needed.

   1872, Rev. B. Smith, The Wesleyan Sunday-school magazine [afterw.] The Wesleyan methodist Sunday school magazine, Volume 7, page 49

   Our Thrift Box has been a great success. Each and every pupil brings a penny each week and we put the penny in a bank.

   1924, Delaware, Department of Public Instruction, State of Delaware - Annual Report of the Department of Public Instruction, page 109