lumber

[lum·ber]

Do you move clumsily, heavily and slowly, without a shred of grace? Then it sounds like you might lumber. Sorry to hear that.

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A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.

Noun
an implement used in baseball by the batter

Noun
the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material

Verb
cut lumber, as in woods and forests

Verb
move heavily or clumsily; "The heavy man lumbered across the room"

n.
A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.

n.
Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.

n.
Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber.

b. t.
To heap together in disorder.

b. t.
To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.

v. i.
To move heavily, as if burdened.

v. i.
To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.

v. i.
To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.

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.]

They put all the little plate they had in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came.

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.] 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.

Lumber

Lum"ber, b. 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 room.

Lumber

Lum"ber, v. 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.]

A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.

To heap together in disorder.

To move heavily, as if burdened.

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Usage Examples

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.

In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.