lumber

Noun · Verb
Synonyms: timberbaseball batpoundlog

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

  1. the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building materialSynonyms: timber
  2. an implement used in baseball by the batterSynonyms: baseball bat

Verb (2)

  1. move heavily or clumsily“The heavy man lumbered across the room”Synonyms: pound
  2. cut lumber, as in woods and forestsSynonyms: log
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Webster's Dictionary (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.] [1913 Webster]

They put all the little plate they had in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came.— Lady Murray.[1913 Webster]

2.Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value. [1913 Webster]

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.] [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster +PJC]

Lumber \Lum"ber\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lumbered; p. pr. & vb. n. Lumbering.]

1.To heap together in disorder. " Stuff lumbered together." --Rymer. [1913 Webster]

2.To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room. [1913 Webster]

Lumber \Lum"ber\, v. i.

1.To move heavily, as if burdened. [1913 Webster]

2.[Cf. dial. Sw. lomra to resound.] To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]

3.To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market. [U.S.] [1913 Webster]

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