Obs. [variant of LOMBARD sb.1]
1. A pawnbroking establishment; = LOMBARD sb.1 3.
1617. Minsheu, Voc. Hisp. Lat., Monte de piedád, a lumber or bancke to lend money for a yeare, for those that need, without interest.
1749. Lady Murray, Lives G. Baillie & Lady Grisell B. (1822), 53. They put up the little plate they had … in the Lumber, which is pawning it.
b. Phrases. To put to lumber: to put in pawn or pledge. To be in lumber (slang): to be imprisoned.
1671. Skinner, Etymol. Ling. Angl., s.v., To put one’s Clothes to Lumbar, pignori dare.
1812. J. H. Vaux, Flash Dict., s.v., A man … sent to gaol is said to be lumbered, to be in lumber, or to be in Lombard-Street.
2. Money due with respect to articles pawned.
a. 1680. Butler, On Critics, 94. And, by an action falsely laid of Trover, The lumber for their proper goods recover.
