lumber definition | Dictionary.com

lum⋅ber

1 [luhm-ber]

–noun

1.	timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.

2.	miscellaneous useless articles that are stored away.

–verb (used without object)

3.	to cut timber and prepare it for market.

4.	to become useless or to be stored away as useless.

–verb (used with object)

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 lumber ² ; i.e., useless goods that weigh one down, impede one's movements

Related forms:

lum⋅ber⋅er, noun

lum⋅ber⋅less, adjective

Lumber Liquidators®
Up to 71% Off Flooring! Great Low Prices Everyday. Full Price Match.
www.LumberLiquidators.com

5x5 Sets ala $84
Lightning Fast Free Shipping +$600 Wkbds $49* Layher System

www.Scaffoldmart.com/DI65$18.99/16

lum⋅ber

2 [luhm-ber]

–verb (used without object)

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

Related forms:

lum⋅ber⋅ly, adjective

Synonyms:
1. trudge, barge, plod.

Lumber River

–noun

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.

Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2009.
Cite This Source

Link To lumber

lum·ber¹ (lŭm'bər)

Timber sawed into boards, planks, or other structural members of standard or specified length.
Something useless or cumbersome.
Chiefly British Miscellaneous stored articles.

v. lum·bered, lum·ber·ing, lum·bers

v. tr.

1. To cut down (trees) and prepare as marketable timber.
2. To cut down the timber of.
Chiefly British To clutter with or as if with unused articles.

v. intr.
To cut and prepare timber for marketing.

[Perhaps from lumber².]
lum'ber adj., lum'ber·er n.

lum·ber² (lŭm'bər)

intr.v. lum·bered, lum·ber·ing, lum·bers

To walk or move with heavy clumsiness. See Synonyms at blunder.
To move with a rumbling noise.

[Middle English lomeren, possibly of Scandinavian origin; akin to Swedish dialectal loma, to move heavily.]
lum'ber·ing·ly adv.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
Cite This Source

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.

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.

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.]

Language Translation for : lumber

Spanish: trasto,

German: das Gerümpel,

Japanese: がらくた

More Translations »

Lumber

Cartel n. A mythical conspiracy accused by spam-spewers of funding anti-spam activism in order to force the direct-mail promotions industry back onto paper. Hackers, predictably, responded by forming a "Lumber Cartel" spoofing this paranoid theory; the web page is `http://come.to/the.lumber.cartel'. Members often include the tag TINLC ("There Is No Lumber Cartel") in their postings; see TINC, backbone cabal and NANA for explanation.

Jargon File 4.2.0
Cite This Source

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.

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.).

Search another word or see lumber on Thesaurus | Reference

Lumber Liquidators
Take Advantage Of Our Special Offer & Save $100 On Flooring!
www.FlooringAmerica.com

SimpleFloors.com Site
Hardwood, Bamboo, Exotic, Laminate, Handscraped Floors. Low $.69sf!
www.SimpleFloors.com/LA-Area-Stores

Up to 70% Off Wood Floors
Gauranteed Lowest Pricing Free Samples & Affordable Shipping

www.emeraldfloors.com/Freesamples

About · Privacy Policy · Terms of Use · Advertise with Us · Link to Us · NASCAR® · Contact Us