lumber
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
lumber
n 1: the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building
material [syn: {lumber}, {timber}]
2: an implement used in baseball by the batter [syn: {baseball
bat}, {lumber}]
v 1: move heavily or clumsily; "The heavy man lumbered across
the room" [syn: {lumber}, {pound}]
2: cut lumber, as in woods and forests [syn: {log}, {lumber}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.]
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They put all the little plate they had in the
lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came.
--Lady Murray.
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2. Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky
and useless, or of small value.
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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.]
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{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.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Lumber \Lum"ber\, v. i.
1. To move heavily, as if burdened.
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2. [Cf. dial. Sw. lomra to resound.] To make a sound as if
moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble. --Cowper.
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3. To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.
[U.S.]
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
225 Moby Thesaurus words for "lumber":
amble, barge, be all thumbs, beam, beams, billet, blunder,
blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, board,
boarding, boards, boggle, botch, bowl along, bumble, bundle,
bungle, burden, burthen, butcher, cargo, charge, chug on,
clamjamfry, clapboard, clog, clump, clutter, commit a gaffe, cord,
cordwood, cramp, cripple, cross, cumber, cumbrance, deadweight,
deal, debris, difficulty, disadvantage, drag, driftwood, dust,
embarrass, embarrassment, encumber, encumbrance, enmesh, ensnarl,
entangle, entoil, entrammel, entrap, entwine, faux pas, fetter,
firewood, flounce, flounder, foot, footslog, freight, fumble, halt,
hamper, hamstring, handicap, hardwood, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble,
hop, impede, impediment, impedimenta, impose upon, imposition,
inconvenience, involve, jog, jog on, jolt, jumble, jump, junk,
lade, lame, land, lath, lathing, lathwork, lime, limp, litter,
load, log, lunge, lurch, mar, mince, miscue, muddle, muff, murder,
net, odds and ends, onus, overload, pace, pack, paddle, panelboard,
paneling, panelwork, peg, penalty, piaffe, piaffer, plank,
planking, planks, play havoc with, plod, plod along, plug,
plug along, plyboard, plywood, pole, post, prance, press down,
puncheon, rack, raff, rejects, riffraff, roll, rub on, rubbish,
rubble, saddle, saddle with, sashay, saunter, schlep, scrap, scuff,
scuffle, scuttle, shackle, shake, shamble, sheathing,
sheathing board, sheeting, shingle, shoddy, shuffle, sideboard,
siding, sidle, single-foot, skip, slab, slat, slink, slip, slither,
slog, slouch, snarl, softwood, splat, spoil, stagger, stalk, stamp,
stave, stick, stick of wood, stomp, stovewood, straddle, straggle,
stride, stroll, strut, stumble, stump, swagger, swing, tangle, tax,
three-by-four, timber, timbering, timberwork, tittup, toddle, toil,
totter, traipse, trammel, tramp, trash, trip, trouble, truck,
trudge, two-by-four, waddle, wamble, weatherboard, weigh,
weigh down, weight, white elephant, wiggle, wobble, wood
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