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Webster 1913 Edition
Lumber
Lum′ber
,Noun.
[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.]
Lum′ber
,Verb.
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 roomLum′ber
,Verb.
I.
1.
To move heavily, as if burdened.
2.
[Cf. dial. Sw.
lomra
to resound.] 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.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Lumber
LUM'BER
, n.1.
Any thing useless and cumbersome, or things bulky and thrown aside as of no use.The very bed was violated - and thrown among the common lumber.
2.
In America, timber sawed or split for use; as beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops and the like.3.
Harm; mischief. [Local.]LUM'BER
, v.t.1.
To heap together in disorder.2.
To fill with lumber; as, to lumber a room.Definition 2024
lumber
lumber
English
A stack of wooden lumber
Noun
lumber (uncountable)
- (uncountable) Wood intended as a building material.
- 1782, H. de Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer
- Here they live by fishing on the most plentiful coasts in the world; there they fell trees, by the sides of large rivers, for masts and lumber;
- 1782, H. de Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer
- Useless things that are stored away
- 1711, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
- The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, / With loads of learned lumber in his head, […]
- 1711, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
- A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
- Lady Murray
- They put all the little plate they had in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came.
- Lady Murray
- (baseball, slang) A baseball bat
Synonyms
Translations
wood as building material
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Verb
lumber (third-person singular simple present lumbers, present participle lumbering, simple past and past participle lumbered)
- (intransitive) To move clumsily.
- 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary
- ...he was only apprized of the arrival of the Monkbarns division by the gee-hupping of the postilion, as the post-chaise lumbered up behind him.
- 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary
- (transitive) To load down with things, to fill, to encumber.
- 1822, Sir Walter Scott, Peveril of the Peak
- The mean utensils, pewter measures, empty cans and casks, with which this room was lumbered, proclaimed it that of the host, who slept surrounded by his professional implements of hospitality and stock-in-trade.
- 1822, Sir Walter Scott, Peveril of the Peak
- To heap together in disorder.
- Rymer
- stuff lumbered together
- Rymer
- To fill or encumber with lumber.
- to lumber up a room