Green’s Dictionary of Slang

lamber-down n.

[lamb down v. (3)]

(Aus./N.Z.) a shanty-keeper or landlord who persuades men to spend all their money on drink.

[Aus]H. Lawson ‘His Brother’s Keeper’ in Roderick (1972) 521: The shanty was kept by a man who went by the name of Thomas, a notorious lamber-down.