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Lumber   /lˈəmbər/   Listen
noun
Lumber  n.  
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.
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.


verb
Lumber  v. t.  (past & past part. lumbered; pres. part. lumbering)  
1.
To heap together in disorder. " Stuff lumbered together."
2.
To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.


Lumber  v. i.  
1.
To move heavily, as if burdened.
2.
To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.
3.
To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market. (U.S.)





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"Lumber" Quotes from Famous Books



... don't you see I'm joking? Judas betrayed a man, and you are not going to betray anything but lumber. Is that right, old man? Speransky and Tony appear, ...
— Savva and The Life of Man • Leonid Andreyev
... Progression and ask no concession, Though strewn be her pathway with wrecks of the past; So off with old lumber, that sweet ark of slumber, The old wooden cradle, ...
— Custer, and Other Poems. • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
... of the house that Legree occupied, like most other garrets, was a great, desolate space, dusty, hung with cobwebs, and littered with cast-off lumber. The opulent family that had inhabited the house in the days of its splendor had imported a great deal of splendid furniture, some of which they had taken away with them, while some remained standing desolate in mouldering, unoccupied rooms, or stored ...
— Uncle Tom's Cabin • Harriet Beecher Stowe
... him what was the price of lumber at Mendocino," said Jack, sweetly, "and when he told me, I should have said that the samples he was offering out of his own head wouldn't suit. You see, you don't want any trifling in such matters. You write well enough, my boy," continued he, turning over his paper, "but ...
— A Sappho of Green Springs • Bret Harte
... lumber business, I take it," guessed the young man immediately, already reaching for his card-case. "My name is Turner, known a little better as Sam Turner, of Turner ...
— The Early Bird - A Business Man's Love Story • George Randolph Chester


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