lumber

lum·ber

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A man measures lumber for a deck.

noun

The definition of lumber is wood sawed into beams and boards of convenient sizes.
An example of lumber is the wood used for building a deck.

verb

To lumber is defined as to move slowly with a lot of effort.
An example of lumber is when big trucks must climb up a steep incline.

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lumber

Brit. miscellaneous discarded household articles, furniture, etc. stored away or taking up room
timber sawed into beams, planks, boards, etc. of sizes convenient for building or carpentry

Origin of lumber

from uncertain or unknown; perhaps Lombard: origin, originally , pawnbroker's shop or storeroom, hence pawned articles in storage, hence stored articles, hence lumber

1. to fill or obstruct with useless articles or rubbish; clutter
2. Brit., Informal to encumber or burden: often with with
to remove (timber) from (an area) for use as lumber

to cut down timber and saw it into lumber

to move heavily, clumsily, and, often, noisily: tanks lumbering up a slope
to rumble

Origin of lumber

Middle English lomeren from uncertain or unknown; perhaps Scand, as in Swedish lomra, to resound, loma, to walk heavily

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lumber

noun

Timber sawed into boards, planks, or other structural members of standard or specified length.
Something useless or cumbersome.
Chiefly British Miscellaneous stored articles.

verb

lum·bered, lum·ber·ing, lum·bers

verb

transitive

a. To cut down (trees) and prepare as marketable timber.
b. To cut down the timber of.
Chiefly British To clutter with or as if with unused articles.

verb

intransitive

To cut and prepare timber for marketing.

Origin of lumber

Perhaps from lumber ²

Related Forms:

lum′ber
adjective

lum′ber·er
noun

intransitive verb

lum·bered, lum·ber·ing, lum·bers

To walk or move clumsily or heavily. See Synonyms at blunder.
To move with a rumbling noise.

Origin of lumber

Middle English lomeren possibly of Scandinavian origin Swedish dialectal loma to move heavily

Related Forms:

lum′ber·ing·ly
adverb

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Noun

(uncountable)

(uncountable) Wood intended as a building material.
Useless things that are stored away
A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.

Verb

(third-person singular simple present lumbers, present participle lumbering, simple past and past participle lumbered)

(intransitive) to move clumsily
to load down with things, to fill, to encumber
To heap together in disorder.
To fill or encumber with lumber.
to lumber up a room

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Origin

Unknown origin.

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lumber - Investment & Finance Definition

A product created from trees that is used in constructing homes, offices, and furniture. Futures contracts are traded on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), among other exchanges throughout the world. The CME’s contract is random-length lumber futures, which began trading in 1969. Options also are traded on lumber.