A person who loans money to others and charges interest, particularly at an
illegal, exorbitant, or
unfair rate.
1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 4:
Profitless usurer, why dost
thou use
So great a sum of sums, yet canst not live?
1936, Margaret
Mitchell, Gone with the
Wind, chapter XLIII
"You can go to the Carpetbag usurers if you want money."