Green’s Dictionary of Slang

loan n.

SE in slang uses

In phrases

get the loan of (v.) (also have a lend of, ...a loan of, ...the loan of, take a loan of) [dial. take the lend of, to take advantage of, to cajole]

(Aus.) to play a trick on; to treat like a fool.

1888		in Stewart & Keesing Old Bush Songs (1957) 80: You’ll scarcely live a six-months; if you do, then beggar me! / The advice of a jackeroo – not long from the old countree – / The squatters here, ’tis very clear, have had the loan of me.
1898		Eve, News (Sydney) 17 Sept. 5/5: Anthony Curry, a horsetrainer, had the ‘loan’ of a cabby named James Nesbitt on Thursday night.
1903		J. Furphy Such is Life 143: Think I was tryin’ to git the loan o’ you?
1905		Bulletin (Sydney) 14 Dec. 32/4: ‘I’m goin’ to fish out my tommy,’ says Murty. ‘That disgruntled son of a cow’s ’ad the loan of us long enough.’.
1910		Bathurst Times (NSW) 20 June 1/4: Some persons had the loan of the Orange police a few days ago, and sent them on a wild-goose chase.
1928		Sydney Sportsman 13 Mar. 7/4: Native Prince, whom Peter Riddle took to N.Z. [...] looks like getting up among the big stuff. He had the loan of tlie handicapper at the Otahuhu meeting.
1942		Wingham Chron. (NSW) 28 Apr. 1/6: And he chuckled, for he / Had the loan of the circus proprietor. / But the showman astute, / On that wily galoot / Soon dropped.
1967		‘Whisper All Aussie Dict.’ in Kings Cross Whisper (Sydney) xli 4/2: take a loan of: To pull someone’s leg, to have on.
1977		(con. 1941) R. Beilby Gunner 200: You mean shoot our way out [...] Ya havin’ a loan of yaself, Snow. I can just see it.
1993		Smith & Noble Neddy (1998) 173: I thought Tex was having a lend of me. ‘Sure mate, pull the other one too.’ Tex insisted that he was not joking.