What does thrift-box mean?

thrift-box

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.39 in modern English

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A box or other receptacle in which savings are stored.

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

thrift-boxes (plural) thrift box (alternative)

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