Obs. exc. slang. [f. LUMBER v.3 + -ER1.] A pawnbroker.
1802. W. Taylor, in Robberds’ Mem., I. 419. The Jew lumberers exhibit … candlesticks purchased of the church-robbers. Ibid. (1807), in Ann. Rev., V. 296. We believe the term broker, for a furniture broker, is gradually disused, and that the term lumberer is introducing itself.
1896. Farmer, Slang, Lumberer … 2. (American thieves’.)—A pawnbroker.
