Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(UK Und.) to lend (money); cit. 1903 refers to a pawnbroker.

c.1698		B.E. Dict. Canting Crew.
1718		C. Hitchin Conduct of Receivers and Thief-Takers n.p.: come down The Cull comes down alias the Man puts his Hand in his Pocket.
1725		New Canting Dict.
1737, 1759, 1760, 1776		Bailey Universal Etym. Eng. Dict.
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1903		Bulletin (Sydney) 9 July 21/4: The frames were gold, so I said they were orlright. ‘Take them,’ she said, and I did – straight down to old Ikey’s; and he came 7s. for them.