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lum·ber1 
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| 1. | timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc. |
| 2. | miscellaneous useless articles that are stored away. |
| 3. | to cut timber and prepare it for market. |
| 4. | to become useless or to be stored away as useless. |
| 5. | to convert (a specified amount, area, etc.) into lumber: We lumbered more than a million acres last year. |
| 6. | to heap together in disorder. |
| 7. | to fill up or obstruct with miscellaneous useless articles; encumber. |
[Origin: 1545–55; orig. n. use of lumber2; i.e., useless goods that weigh one down, impede one's movements]
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lum·ber·er, noun
lum·ber·less, adjective
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Lumber
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lum·ber2
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| 1. | to move clumsily or heavily, esp. from great or ponderous bulk: overloaded wagons lumbering down the dirt road. |
| 2. | to make a rumbling noise. |
[Origin: 1300–50; ME lomeren; cf. dial. Sw lomra to resound, loma to walk heavily]
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lum·ber·ly, adjective
—Synonyms 1. trudge, barge, plod.
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Lumber River
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| a river in S central North Carolina and NE South Carolina, flowing SE and S to the Little Pee Dee River. 125 mi. (201 km) long. |
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| lum·ber 1
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n.
v. lum·bered, lum·ber·ing, lum·bers v. tr.
v. intr. To cut and prepare timber for marketing. [Perhaps from lumber2.] lum'ber adj., lum'ber·er n. |
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| lum·ber 2
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intr.v. lum·bered, lum·ber·ing, lum·bers
[Middle English lomeren, possibly of Scandinavian origin; akin to Swedish dialectal loma, to move heavily.] lum'ber·ing·ly adv. |
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lumber (n.)
"timber sawn into rough planks," 1662, Amer.Eng. (Massachusetts), earlier "disused bit of furniture; heavy, useless objects" (1552), probably from lumber (v.), perhaps influenced by Lombard, from the Italian immigrants famous as pawnbrokers and money-lenders in England (see Lombard). The evolution of sense would be because a lumber-house ("pawn shop") naturally accumulates odds and ends of furniture. Lumberjack first attested 1831, Canadian Eng.
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lumber (v.)
"to move clumsily," c.1300, lomere, probably from a Scand. source (cf. dial. Swed. loma "move slowly," O.N. lami "lame"), ultimately cognate with lame (adj.).
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| lumber | |
noun | |
| 1. | the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material |
| 2. | an implement used in baseball by the batter [syn: baseball bat] |
verb | |
| 1. | move heavily or clumsily; "The heavy man lumbered across the room" |
| 2. | cut lumber, as in woods and forests [syn: log] |
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lumber1 [ˈlambə] noun
old unwanted furniture etc
lumber2 [ˈlambə] noun
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timber sawn up
lumber [ˈlambə] verb
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to give (someone) an unwanted responsibility
Example: to lumber someone with a job
lumber [ˈlambə] verbExample: to lumber someone with a job
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to move about heavily and clumsily
See also: lumberjack
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Lumber Bridge, NC (town, FIPS 39680) Location: 34.88942 N, 79.07297 W
Population (1990): 109 (50 housing units)
Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 28357
Lumber City, GA (city, FIPS 47952) Location: 31.93259 N, 82.68270 W
Population (1990): 1429 (560 housing units)
Area: 5.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 31549
Lumber City, PA (borough, FIPS 45448) Location: 40.92887 N, 78.57211 W
Population (1990): 83 (41 housing units)
Area: 7.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
| U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau |
Lumber
Lom"bard\, n. [F. lombard, fr. the Longobardi or Langobardi, i. e., Longbeards, a people of Northern Germany, west of the Elbe, and afterward in Northern Italy. See Long, and Beard, and cf. Lumber.]1. A native or inhabitant of Lombardy. 2. A money lender or banker; -- so called because the business of banking was first carried on in London by Lombards. 3. Same as Lombard-house. A Lombard unto this day signifying a bank for usury or pawns. --Fuller. 4. (Mil.) A form of cannon formerly in use. --Prescott. Lombard Street, the principal street in London for banks and the offices of note brokers; hence, the money market and interest of London.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
Lumber
Lum"ber\, v. 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.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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