'Lumber' definitions:
Definition of 'lumber'
From: WordNet
noun
The wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material [syn: lumber, timber]
noun
An implement used in baseball by the batter [syn: baseball bat, lumber]
verb
Move heavily or clumsily; "The heavy man lumbered across the room" [syn: lumber, pound]
verb
Cut lumber, as in woods and forests [syn: log, lumber]
Definition of 'Lumber'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Lumber'
From: GCIDE
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- They put all the little plate they had in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came. --Lady Murray. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value. [1913 Webster]
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- 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.
- dimensional lumber, lumber, usually of pine, which is sold as beams or planks having a specified nominal cross-section, usually in inches, such a two-by-four, two-by-six, four-by-four, etc. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Definition of 'Lumber'
From: GCIDE
- Lumber \Lum"ber\, v. i.
- 1. To move heavily, as if burdened. [1913 Webster]
- 2. [Cf. dial. Sw. lomra to resound.] To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market. [U.S.] [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'lumber'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- amble,
- barge,
- be all thumbs,
- beam,
- beams,
- billet,
- blunder,
- blunder away,
- blunder into,
- blunder on,
- blunder upon,
- board,
- boarding,
- boards,
- boggle,
- botch,
- bowl along,
- bumble,
- bundle,
- bungle,
- burden,
- burthen,
- butcher,
- cargo,
- charge,
- chug on,
- clamjamfry,
- clapboard,
- clog,
- clump,
- clutter,
- commit a gaffe,
- cord,
- cordwood,
- cramp,
- cripple,
- cross,
- cumber,
- cumbrance,
- deadweight,
- deal,
- debris,
- difficulty,
- disadvantage,
- drag,
- driftwood,
- dust,
- embarrass,
- embarrassment,
- encumber,
- encumbrance,
- enmesh,
- ensnarl,
- entangle,
- entoil,
- entrammel,
- entrap,
- entwine,
- faux pas,
- fetter,
- firewood,
- flounce,
- flounder,
- foot,
- footslog,
- freight,
- fumble,
- halt,
- hamper,
- hamstring,
- handicap,
- hardwood,
- hippety-hop,
- hitch,
- hobble,
- hop,
- impede,
- impediment,
- impedimenta,
- impose upon,
- imposition,
- inconvenience,
- involve,
- jog,
- jog on,
- jolt,
- jumble,
- jump,
- junk,
- lade,
- lame,
- land,
- lath,
- lathing,
- lathwork,
- lime,
- limp,
- litter,
- load,
- log,
- lunge,
- lurch,
- mar,
- mince,
- miscue,
- muddle,
- muff,
- murder,
- net,
- odds and ends,
- onus,
- overload,
- pace,
- pack,
- paddle,
- panelboard,
- paneling,
- panelwork,
- peg,
- penalty,
- piaffe,
- piaffer,
- plank,
- planking,
- planks,
- play havoc with,
- plod,
- plod along,
- plug,
- plug along,
- plyboard,
- plywood,
- pole,
- post,
- prance,
- press down,
- puncheon,
- rack,
- raff,
- rejects,
- riffraff,
- roll,
- rub on,
- rubbish,
- rubble,
- saddle,
- saddle with,
- sashay,
- saunter,
- schlep,
- scrap,
- scuff,
- scuffle,
- scuttle,
- shackle,
- shake,
- shamble,
- sheathing,
- sheathing board,
- sheeting,
- shingle,
- shoddy,
- shuffle,
- sideboard,
- siding,
- sidle,
- single-foot,
- skip,
- slab,
- slat,
- slink,
- slip,
- slither,
- slog,
- slouch,
- snarl,
- softwood,
- splat,
- spoil,
- stagger,
- stalk,
- stamp,
- stave,
- stick,
- stick of wood,
- stomp,
- stovewood,
- straddle,
- straggle,
- stride,
- stroll,
- strut,
- stumble,
- stump,
- swagger,
- swing,
- tangle,
- tax,
- three-by-four,
- timber,
- timbering,
- timberwork,
- tittup,
- toddle,
- toil,
- totter,
- traipse,
- trammel,
- tramp,
- trash,
- trip,
- trouble,
- truck,
- trudge,
- two-by-four,
- waddle,
- wamble,
- weatherboard,
- weigh,
- weigh down,
- weight,
- white elephant,
- wiggle,
- wobble,
- wood