No testers to the bed, and the saddles and portmanteaus heaped on me to
keep off the cold.
Walpole.
Tes"ter, n. [For testern, teston, fr. F. teston, fr. OF. teste the
head, the head of the king being impressed upon the coin. See Tester a
covering, and cf. Testone, Testoon.] An old French silver coin,
originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced
to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English
slang, a sixpence; — often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston.
Shak.