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LUMBER
lumber, timber
(noun) the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
log, lumber
(verb) cut lumber, as in woods and forests
lumber, pound
(verb) move heavily or clumsily; “The heavy man lumbered across the room”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
lumber (usually uncountable, plural lumbers)
(North America, uncountable) Wood intended as a building material.
(UK) Useless things that are stored away.
(obsolete) A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
(baseball, slang) A baseball bat.
Synonyms
• timber
• wood
Verb
lumber (third-person singular simple present lumbers, present participle lumbering, simple past and past participle lumbered)
(intransitive) To move clumsily and heavily; to move slowly.
(transitive, with with) To load down with things, to fill, to encumber, to impose an unwanted burden on
To heap together in disorder.
To fill or encumber with lumber.
Anagrams
• Blumer, Bulmer, Rumble, rumble, umbrel
Source: Wiktionary
Lum"ber, n. Etym: [Prob. fr. Lombard, the Lombards being the money lenders and pawnbrokers of the Middle Ages. A lumber room was, according to Trench, originally a Lombard room, or room where the Lombard pawnbroker stored his pledges. See Lombard.]
1. A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. [Obs.] They put all the little plate they had in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came. Lady Murray.
2. Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.
3. Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber. [U.S.] Lumber kiln, a room in which timber or lumber is dried by artificial heat. [U.S.] -- Lumber room, a room in which unused furniture or other lumber is kept. [U.S.] -- Lumber wagon, a heavy rough wagon, without springs, used for general farmwork, etc.
Lum"ber, b. t. [imp. & p. p. Lumbered; p. pr. & vb. n. Lumbering.]
1. To heap together in disorder. " Stuff lumbered together." Rymer.
2. To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.
Lum"ber, v. i.
1. To move heavily, as if burdened.
2. Etym: [Cf. dial. Sw. lomra to resound.]
Definition: To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble. Cowper.
3. To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market. [U.S.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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