Lumber
['lʌmbə] or ['lʌmbɚ]
Definition
(noun.) the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material.
(verb.) move heavily or clumsily; 'The heavy man lumbered across the room'.
Typist: Rosa--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
(n.) Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.
(n.) Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber.
(b. t.) To heap together in disorder.
(b. t.) To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.
(v. i.) To move heavily, as if burdened.
(v. i.) To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.
(v. i.) To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.
Typed by Keller
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Trash, trumpery, rubbish.[2]. [U. S.] Sawed or split timber.
v. n. [1]. Heap in disorder.[2]. Fill with trumpery.
v. n. [1]. Trudge, move heavily.[2]. [U. S.] Cut timber, prepare logs for lumber.
Checker: Roland
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Choke, crowd, obstruct, encumber
ANT:Clear, disencumber, utilize, economize
SYN:Trash, rubbish, refuse
ANT:Valuables, commodities, stock
Checker: Vivian
Definition
n. anything cumbersome or useless: timber sawed or split for use.—v.t. to fill with lumber: to heap together in confusion.—n. Lum′berer one employed in felling timber and bringing it from the forest.—adj. Lum′bering filling with lumber: putting in confusion.—n. Lum′ber-room a room for holding things not in use.
v.i. to move heavily.
Typist: Ralph
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of lumber, denotes many difficult tasks and but little remuneration or pleasure. To see piles of lumber burning, indicates profit from an unexpected source. To dream of sawing lumber, denotes unwise transactions and unhappiness.
Checker: Mortimer
Examples
- Redwood lumber, being light in weight and singularly free from many of the defects so prevalent in other wood, is extremely easy to work. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- There was no way of reaching Humboldt at that time except to take passage on a San Francisco sailing vessel going after lumber. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Holmes spent the evening in rummaging among the files of the old daily papers with which one of our lumber-rooms was packed. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Canadian lumber was used principally in this industry. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The lumber from the redwood tree is light, and ranges in color from medium to light cherry, while the lumber from the Big Trees, or _Sequoia Gigantia_, has a decided pink cast. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- These objects discomposed me more, perhaps, than it would be wise to say, as also did the dust, lumber, and stifling heat of the place. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I see no reason for using anything but common lumber for this purpose, as upon swelling it will close up tight enough to keep out the air. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- What time, the mail-coach lumbered, jolted, rattled, and bumped upon its tedious way, with its three fellow-inscrutables inside. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The coach lumbered on again, with heavier wreaths of mist closing round it as it began the descent. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The Dover road lay, as to him, beyond the Dover mail, as it lumbered up Shooter's Hill. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- A substitute for the slow animal, horse, and for the dangerous, noisy steam horse and its lumbering locomotive and train, was hailed with delight. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- You call at the Temple late,' he remarked, with a lumbering show of ease. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Symptoms of a lumbering coquetry became visible in her, and Archer found the strength to break in: But Madame Olenska--has she gone to Newport too? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Adolph tripped gracefully forward, and Tom, with lumbering tread, went after. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Here, Bruno, he called, whistling to the lumbering Newfoundland, who came pitching tumultuously toward them. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- There is a huge lumbering Saint Christopher yonder, sufficient to bear a whole company to the earth. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Gradually, it subsided to a foot pace, swinging and lumbering upward among the many sweet scents of a summer night. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Nor Our Johnny, he scarce know'd either, for sometimes when the mangle lumbers he says, “Me choking, Granny! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Edited by Glenn