Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To make a heavy rumbling noise; rumble: chiefly in the present participle.
  • To move heavily or cumbrously: chiefly in the present participle.
  • To stumble. Also lumper.
  • noun Things, more or less bulky and cumbersome, thrown aside (or which may be thrown aside) as of no present use or value.
  • noun Timber sawed or split for use, as beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, and the like.
  • noun Useless and cumbersome weight, bulk, etc.
  • noun Foolish or ribald talk.
  • noun Harm; mischief.
  • To heap together in disorder.
  • To fill with lumber; encumber with anything useless: as, to lumber a room: often with up.
  • To cut timber in the forest and prepare it for market.
  • noun A pawnbroker's shop.
  • noun A pledge; a pawn.
  • To put in pawn; hence, to put in prison.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb To move heavily, as if burdened.
  • intransitive verb To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.
  • intransitive verb U.S. To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.
  • transitive verb To heap together in disorder.
  • transitive verb To fill or encumber with lumber.
  • noun obsolete A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
  • noun Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.
  • noun U.S. Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber.
  • noun [U.S.] a room in which timber or lumber is dried by artificial heat.
  • noun [U.S.] a room in which unused furniture or other lumber is kept.
  • noun a heavy rough wagon, without springs, used for general farmwork, etc.
  • noun 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun uncountable Wood intended as a building material.
  • noun Useless things that are stored away
  • verb intransitive to move clumsily
  • verb transitive to load down with things, to fill, to encumber

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb cut lumber, as in woods and forests
  • noun an implement used in baseball by the batter
  • noun the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
  • verb move heavily or clumsily

Etymologies

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Unknown origin.

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Examples

  • In times of common calamity God manifests his favour to the elect remnant; his jewels, which he will then make up; his peculiar treasure, which he will secure when the lumber is abandoned to the spoiler.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

  • Alas, lumber is not an easily-renewable resource and once it's gone, it's gone for a long time, unless there is unlikely foresight to replant the ravaged slopes of this tropical forest.

    Mexico's endless Pacific beach: sun, surf, sand, seafood and solitude 2009

  • Backyard describes lumber from the tree scientifically named Cunninghamia lanceolata as cedar.

    Archive 2009-10-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • Alas, lumber is not an easily-renewable resource and once it's gone, it's gone for a long time, unless there is unlikely foresight to replant the ravaged slopes of this tropical forest.

    Mexico's endless Pacific beach: sun, surf, sand, seafood and solitude 2009

  • Since the alleged falsity here was “referring to lumber from a tree that is not classified as cedar in a scientific or botanical classification” as cedar, Rainbow had engaged in materially related inequitable conduct.

    Unclean hands, covered with cedar chips Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • Ain't I got two teams haulin 'lumber for the new winery? An'

    CHAPTER XXI 2010

  • A new matrix enters the equation with the heavy increase in lumber prices, as today reported in the NY Times.

    Housing Bubble, Again, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Backyard describes lumber from the tree scientifically named Cunninghamia lanceolata as cedar.

    Unclean hands, covered with cedar chips Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • He had given it out, rather vaguely, that he needed the animals for sledding lumber from the mill to his sluices, and right here is where Sitka Charley demonstrated his fitness.

    THE SCORN OF WOMEN 2010

  • Since the alleged falsity here was “referring to lumber from a tree that is not classified as cedar in a scientific or botanical classification” as cedar, Rainbow had engaged in materially related inequitable conduct.

    Archive 2009-10-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

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