lumber room

Noun

WordNet 3.0

Noun (1)

a storeroom in a house where odds and ends can be stored (especially furniture)Synonyms: lumber room

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]