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lumber


  4  definitions  found 
 
  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  1.6  [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},  {bat}] 
  v  1:  move  heavily  or  clumsily  [syn:  {pound}] 
  2:  cut  lumber,  as  in  woods  and  forests  [syn:  {log}] 




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