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chinda, chinder noun
1 currency one shilling 19.
2 silver in general 19.
3 tin 19. etymology: origin obscure, see note from Grellmann below; pre-decimalization (1971), a shilling was a coin worth twelve old pennies; collected by Simson (1865) and attested by one of his informants; form chinder collected by McCormick note:

Grellmann (1787) collected the forms Tʃchino Tin’ and Tzindo rup ‘Quickʃilver’ from Continental gipsies.