单词 | lumber-house |
释义 | † lumber-housen. Obsolete. = lumber n.2 1. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > pawnshop Lombard1609 lumber1617 lumber-house1677 pawnshop1720 rumbo ken1724 pop-shop1772 spout1819 pawnbrokery1821 dolly-shop1851 pawn1868 hock-shop1871 poverty shop1948 1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 7 A lumber-house, whereby all poor people may have Moneys lent upon Goods at very easie Interest. 1720 London Gaz. No. 5859/9 Subscriptions for erecting Lumber-Houses, Loan-Offices, &c. 1723 London Gaz. No. 6164/1 Lumber-Houses or Banks for lending Money on Pledges. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2021). > as lemmaslumber-house lumber-house n. cf. lumber-house n. ΚΠ 1720 in A. M. Davis Tracts Currency Mass. Bay (1902) 385 Hemp, Flax, Turpentine..to be stored up in the Lumber-house. 1728 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 175 A lumberhouse of Books in every head. 1806 M. L. Weems Lett. II. 356 T'other day..I found a box in the lumber house of a Gentleman at Columbia. 1899 H. B. Cushman Hist. Indians 162 A lumberhouse and granary, each 18 × 20 ft. < n.1677 as lemmas |
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