Hypertext Webster Gateway: "lumber"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
--Lady Murray.
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
lumber
n 1: the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building
material [syn: {timber}]
2: an implement used in baseball by the batter [syn: {baseball
bat}]
v 1: move heavily or clumsily; "The heavy man lumbered across the
room [syn: {pound}]
2: cut lumber, as in woods and forests [syn: {log}]
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