Usage examples for lender:

• Neither a borrower nor a lender be: For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. "Self Help" – Samuel Smiles

• You might have known, I do not know whether you did or not, that Forrester had some private trouble with a money lender but I do not imagine that had anything to do with your having selected Forrester's bank. "The Further Adventures of Jimmie Dale" – Frank L. Packard

• The following mid- day Joe sent for Ishmael to the Hummums, and from that comfortable if somewhat dingy hostelry set out, in the gayest spirits, to track down a money- lender who would oblige on no better security than his assurance that the Guv'nor would pay up when he had got over the shock. "Secret Bread" – F. Tennyson Jesse