Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK Und.) a pawnbroker.

1821		Flash Dict.
1835		G. Kent Modern Flash Dict.
1848		Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open.
c.1850		Duncombe New and Improved Flash Dict.
1852		Kendal Mercury 14 Feb. 3/3: The quantity of clothes they receive from benevolent people is almost incredible — which their ‘fancy Molls’ either dispose of to feints (pawnbrokers) or send by rail to ‘toggery fencers’ (dealers in old clothes).
1859		Matsell Vocabulum.
1895		Crowe Aus. Sl. Dict. 28: Feint, a pawnbroker.