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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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Etymology of 'Lumber'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lumber" Quotes from Famous Books

... is the dwelling-house of the gentleman in charge, and adjoining it the clerks' house; while on the left are the provision-store and Indian trading-shop. A few insignificant buildings, such as the oil-store and lumber-house, intrude themselves here and there; and on the right a tall ungainly outlook rises in the air, affording the inhabitants an extensive view of their wild domains; and just beside it stands the ice-house. This latter building is filled every spring with blocks of solid ice of about three feet ...

— Hudson Bay • R.M. Ballantyne

... things stored away in the gallery upstairs, and some beautiful pictures hanging there, including the Vandyck, you know, which Charles II. gave to old Sir Peter, your cavalier ancestor. But the gallery is almost a lumber-room, for the floor is too unsafe to walk upon. And down here, as you see, we are ...

— Peter's Mother • Mrs. Henry De La Pasture

... of an earlier one; but Poe, of our time, himself an ingenious versifier, in his Notes upon English Verse, conveys the idea that all ears are alike competent to appreciate the elements of metre. "Quantity," according to his dogmatism, "is a point in the investigation of which the lumber of mere learning may be dispensed with, if ever in any. Its appreciation" says he, "is universal. It appertains to no region, nor race, nor era in especial. To melody and to harmony the Greeks hearkened with ears precisely similar to those which we employ, ...

— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown

... a newspaper cutting of 1845: "All around are poverty and wretchedness; the streets and alleys are rank with the filth of half a century; the windows are half of them broken, or patched with rags and paper, and when whole are begrimed with dirt and smoke; little brokers' shops abound, filled with lumber, the odour of which taints even that tainted atmosphere; the pavement and carriage-way swarm with pigs, poultry, and ragged children.... But in the space called the Dials itself the scene is far different. There at least rise splendid buildings with stuccoed fronts and richly-ornamented ...

— Holborn and Bloomsbury - The Fascination of London • Sir Walter Besant

... in the lumber room under the gymnasium. Nobody ever goes there, and you can get into it any time by the area outside," ...

— Tom, Dick and Harry • Talbot Baines Reed

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