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Definition of Penny bank
1. Noun. A child's coin bank (often shaped like a pig).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Penny Bank
Literary usage of Penny bank
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Plea for Liberty: An Argument Against Socialism and Socialistic by Thomas Mackay, Herbert Spencer (1891)
"Take the National penny bank for example. This was established in 1875, having
for its objects to promote thrift by affording facilities for the exercise of ..."
2. A Plea for Liberty: An Argument Against Socialism and Socialistic by Thomas Mackay, Herbert Spencer (1891)
"Take the National penny bank for example. This was established in 1875, having
for its objects to promote thrift by affording facilities for the exercise of ..."
3. Transactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science by G. W. Hastings, Andr. Edgar, Edw. Pears, Ch. W. Ryalls (1865)
"Mr. WW MORRELL read a paper on " The Proper Sphere of the Savings Bank, the Penny
Bank, and the Post Office Savings Bank, as illustrated in the city of York ..."
4. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1878)
"During the year 1876 the progress of the penny bank movement was in every way
satisfactory. Authority was given for 172 penny banks in various parts of the ..."
5. The Nineteenth Century (1886)
"The money received will be invested in the Post Office Savings Bank, on behalf
of the above-named penny bank, in the following Names, being tbo« of the ..."
6. The Twentieth Century by Caroline Farrar Ware (1908)
"penny bank is given in the balance-sheet as ' only slightly over 31. Os. I0d., for
each deposit,' at 2£ per cent, per annum. And as interest is only paid ..."
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