Lumber

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lumber \Lum"ber\, n. [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.]
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              They put all the little plate they had in the
              lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came.
                                                    --Lady Murray.
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     2. Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky
        and useless, or of small value.
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     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.]
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     {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.
  
     {dimensional lumber}, lumber, usually of pine, which is sold
        as beams or planks having a specified nominal
        cross-section, usually in inches, such a two-by-four,
        two-by-six, four-by-four, etc.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lumber \Lum"ber\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lumbered}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Lumbering}.]
     1. To heap together in disorder. " Stuff lumbered together."
        --Rymer.
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     2. To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Lumber \Lum"ber\, v. i.
     1. To move heavily, as if burdened.
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     2. [Cf. dial. Sw. lomra to resound.] To make a sound as if
        moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble. --Cowper.
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     3. To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.
        [U.S.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lumber
       n 1: the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building
            material [syn: {timber}]
       2: an implement used in baseball by the batter [syn: {baseball
          bat}]
       v 1: move heavily or clumsily; "The heavy man lumbered across the
            room" [syn: {pound}]
       2: cut lumber, as in woods and forests [syn: {log}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  225 Moby Thesaurus words for "lumber":
     amble, barge, be all thumbs, beam, beams, billet, blunder,
     blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, board,
     boarding, boards, boggle, botch, bowl along, bumble, bundle,
     bungle, burden, burthen, butcher, cargo, charge, chug on,
     clamjamfry, clapboard, clog, clump, clutter, commit a gaffe, cord,
     cordwood, cramp, cripple, cross, cumber, cumbrance, deadweight,
     deal, debris, difficulty, disadvantage, drag, driftwood, dust,
     embarrass, embarrassment, encumber, encumbrance, enmesh, ensnarl,
     entangle, entoil, entrammel, entrap, entwine, faux pas, fetter,
     firewood, flounce, flounder, foot, footslog, freight, fumble, halt,
     hamper, hamstring, handicap, hardwood, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble,
     hop, impede, impediment, impedimenta, impose upon, imposition,
     inconvenience, involve, jog, jog on, jolt, jumble, jump, junk,
     lade, lame, land, lath, lathing, lathwork, lime, limp, litter,
     load, log, lunge, lurch, mar, mince, miscue, muddle, muff, murder,
     net, odds and ends, onus, overload, pace, pack, paddle, panelboard,
     paneling, panelwork, peg, penalty, piaffe, piaffer, plank,
     planking, planks, play havoc with, plod, plod along, plug,
     plug along, plyboard, plywood, pole, post, prance, press down,
     puncheon, rack, raff, rejects, riffraff, roll, rub on, rubbish,
     rubble, saddle, saddle with, sashay, saunter, schlep, scrap, scuff,
     scuffle, scuttle, shackle, shake, shamble, sheathing,
     sheathing board, sheeting, shingle, shoddy, shuffle, sideboard,
     siding, sidle, single-foot, skip, slab, slat, slink, slip, slither,
     slog, slouch, snarl, softwood, splat, spoil, stagger, stalk, stamp,
     stave, stick, stick of wood, stomp, stovewood, straddle, straggle,
     stride, stroll, strut, stumble, stump, swagger, swing, tangle, tax,
     three-by-four, timber, timbering, timberwork, tittup, toddle, toil,
     totter, traipse, trammel, tramp, trash, trip, trouble, truck,
     trudge, two-by-four, waddle, wamble, weatherboard, weigh,
     weigh down, weight, white elephant, wiggle, wobble, wood