lumber

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Besides, I think the kitchen would look better and last longer if the lumber were all new Of course she had her way.

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  1. noun Timber sawed into boards, planks, or other structural members of standard or specified length.
  2. noun Something useless or cumbersome.
  3. noun Chiefly British Miscellaneous stored articles.
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  • My brother James met us at Grand Rapids with what, in those days, was called a lumber-wagon, but which had a horrible resem - blance to a vehicle from the health department. —  The Story of a Pioneer
  • When he called at the railroad office to receive pay for his lumber, the clerk paid him in rolls of bills sealed up in paper, with the value marked on the outside. —  Personal Recollections of Pardee Butler
  • It's a simple house, not designed by a architect or built by a contractor; but, the trees for the lumber were cut, the boards were sawed, and it was built with the owner's hands. —  Sunlight Through The Shadows Magazine Volume 2 Issue 2 (ANSI Edition)
  • Besides, I think the kitchen would look better and last longer if the lumber were all new Of course she had her way. —  The Conjure Woman
  • The new building, for which the lumber is already ordered, will be a better one than the shed we are now in, and on the second floor I intend to have a cozy suite of rooms where you and Hetty can make a home of your own. —  Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation
 

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Etymologies (7)

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  1. Perhaps from lumber2.
  2. Middle English lomeren, possibly of Scandinavian origin; akin to Swedish dialectal loma, to move heavily.

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  1. Early modern English lumbren, with excrescent b as in number, humble, humble, etc.; from Middle English lomeren, from Swedish lomra, resound, a freq. verb, from Swedish dial. ljumm, a great noise, = Icelandic hljōmr, a sound, a tune, akin to Gothic (Moesogothic) hliuma, hearing, from Teutonic √ hlu, hear: see loud and list, listen. Like other words denoting sounds, the word has been apparently regarded as imitative, and has also been confused more or less with unrelated words, as with lumber, lump, etc.
  2. Usually explained as orig. the contents of the lumber-room, this being explained as “orig. the Lombard-room, or room where the Lombard banker and broker stowed away his pledges” (Trench, following Blount, and followed by Skeat), and asserted to have been transferred to any unused chamber where furniture was stored; but of Lombard-room there is no evidence, and if existent it would rather have meant ‘a room where Lombards or brokers were kept.’ More prob. lumber is from lumber, v., as being orig. heavy, ‘lumbering’ articles. Some confusion with lump is prob. involved; cf. German lumpen-kammer, lumber-room, Swedish lumpor, rags, old clothes: see lump.
  3. from lumber, n.
  4. A corruption of earlier lumbard, lombard: see lombard.
  5. lumber, n.
 

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