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Green’s Dictionary of Slang

lig n.¹

[? dial. lig, to lie down or lib-beg n.]

a bed.

1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum 51: lig A bedstead.

In compounds

lig robber (n.)

a thief who hides under a bed waiting to rob or assault somebody.

1931		Irwin Amer. Tramp and Und. Sl. 121: Lig Robber. – A thief who hides under a bed or in a closet until the woman is alone in the house, when she is robbed and possibly assaulted.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 145: lig robber One who hides in a bed room waiting to rob or assault the victim.