lumber
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Apart from several cigarette factories (Chinese-owned), lumber, and tin mines, one of which is owned by the right-wing Prince Boun Oum, there seems to be little that is productive in the country.
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- noun Timber sawed into boards, planks, or other structural members of standard or specified length.
- noun Something useless or cumbersome.
- noun Chiefly British Miscellaneous stored articles.
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- Jammed behind the lumber was a rusty wood stove, four kitchen chairs with the seats missing, a pair of wooden cross-country skis, and a carton labeled sheets towels blankets. — Incubus
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Apart from several cigarette factories (Chinese-owned), lumber, and tin mines, one of which is owned by the right-wing Prince Boun Oum, there seems to be little that is productive in the country.
— A Special Supplement: A Visit to Laos - But to two of the young people at least all this was subdued into a feeling of oppression: they knew the history of its inmates, and for them this great comfortable dwelling was a place of unknown horrors, of strange lumber from the lives of the family which had lived there ever since it had been built. — Police at the Funeral
- He scrounged lumber from the shipyard and built the house with his own hands, and now lake frontage is up to two thousand dollars a foot! — The Cat Who Went Underground
- What lumber is that you’re draggin’, if I may ask you? — The Crucible
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- Perhaps from lumber2.
- Middle English lomeren, possibly of Scandinavian origin; akin to Swedish dialectal loma, to move heavily.
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/ (lŭmˈbər)/
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