slang. Also 6, 9 lowre, 9 loaver. Money.
1567. Harman, Caveat, 85. Hast thou any lowre in thy bonge?
1622. Fletcher, Beggar’s Bush, II. i. Except you do provide me hum enough, and Lour to bouze with!
1670. Cotton, Scoffer Scofft (1675), 184. But e’re this life I’le longer lead I’le stroll for Lower, or begs my bread.
1834. W. H. Ainsworth, Rookwood, V. i. (1878), 341. I knows I owes you my life, and I thank you for it. Take back the lowre.
1851. Mayhew, Lond. Labour, I. 424. They don’t mind tipping the loaver (money).
1889. Clarkson & Richardson, Police, 321. Bad money (coin), gammy lower.
