Green’s Dictionary of Slang

a loan, e.g. give us a lend of your barrow, credit.

1902		Bulletin (Sydney) 11 Oct. 36/2: The drunk sometimes has a mate who wants the ‘lend’ of a 2d. stamp to write to his poor dear mother in Maoriland, or elsewhere.
1938		X. Herbert Capricornia (1939) 371: Frank put it on him for the lend of a tenner.
1952		‘Josephine Tey’ Singing Sands 27: ‘You can have a len’ of my fly, if you like’.
1972		J. McNeill Old Familiar Juice (1973) 106: bulla: Yer must’ve been playin’ fer lends [...] seein’ as you don’t own one bloody inch of the stakers yer were fightin’ for!
1982		J. Sullivan ‘The Yellow Peril’ Only Fools and Horses [TV script] I’ll give you a lend of me dirty books.
1983		J. Byrell (con. 1959) Up the Cross 77: ‘You can have a lend of one of mine [i.e. a shirt]’.
2000		letter in Ozwords Apr. 3: My daughter, who is fourteen, has this grating expression: ‘Can I have a lend of this or that?’ ... She isn’t the only one. Her friends do it also. Is this just a fad of teenspeak, or is it acceptable now to use lend as a noun? My dictionary is no help (perhaps it’s Out of date).