Lumber
(from Lombard). A pawn-broker's shop. Thus Lady Murray
writes: “They put all the little plate they had in the lumber, which is
pawning it, till the ships came home.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Lumber from Fact Monster:
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