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Meaning of lumber

Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

lumber

Pronunciation:/ˈlʌm.bə//ˈlʌm.bɚ/

noun

Definitions

  1. Old furniture or other items that take up room, or are stored away.

  2. Useless or cumbrous material.

  3. A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.

  4. Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material.

verb

Definitions

  1. To move clumsily and heavily; to move slowly.

  2. (with with) To load down with things, to fill, to encumber, to impose an unwanted burden on

    Example: I got lumbered with that boring woman all afternoon.

  3. To heap together in disorder.

  4. To fill or encumber with lumber.

    Example: to lumber up a room