Vends n. pl. : See Wends.

Example:
What happens when the Federal Reserve Vends aka sells a GOV security to a commercial bank?

Taxonomy
free encyclopedia, language, western Latvia, search, tribe, twelfth, sixteenth centuries, north-central, The origin, the Western, Western Slavic, researchers, spoke, Finnic language, the Chronicle of Henry of Livonia, Christianized, Germans, arrival.

Defination from the web:
Vends were a small tribe who lived in the twelfth-sixteenth centuries in the area around the town of Wenden (now Cēsis) in what is now north-central Latvia. ... The origin of the Vends and their language is disputed; sometimes they are associated with the Western Slavic Wends, ...