Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK Und.) wherever thieves divide their booty, e.g. a lodging-house.

1741		Ordinary of Newgate Account of the Malefactors executed at Tyburn 18th March 1740 part II 7: They got to the Biding (or Place where they divide the Booty) [...] they examined the Contents of their Booties, which was three Bungs, with Lowers (Purses), in each Lower there were ten Ridges.
1741		Ordinary of Newgate Account 31 July 🌐 [We] went away and left him in that Condition to our ** Bidings, and snack’d the Cole [...] ** Lodgings.
1764		Bloody Register III 171: [as cit. 1741].