meaning of lumber
1. A pawnbrokers shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
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.
4. To heap together in disorder.
5. To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.
6. To move heavily, as if burdened.
7. To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.
8. To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.
Related Words
lumber | lumbered | lumberer | lumbering | lumberman | lumbermen |
