Definition of "out-pensioner" [out-pensioner]

• A nonresident pensioner, as of Chelsea or Greenwich hospital. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "A marriage is on the _tapis_ between Mr. John Smith, the distinguished toll-collector at the Marsh Gate, and Miss Julia Belinda Snooks, the lovely and accomplished daughter of the gallant out-pensioner of Greenwich"
• "Tom Trivett entered the navy, and having lost a leg, became an out-pensioner of Greenwich Hospital."
• "It fell upon a smart young fellow enough; and as he made it a preliminary condition that Mrs Jiniwin should be thenceforth an out-pensioner, they lived together after marriage with no more than the average amount of quarrelling, and led a merry life upon the dead dwarf's money."