Lumber

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Timber sawed into boards, planks, or other structural members of standard or specified length.
  • n. Something useless or cumbersome.
  • n. Chiefly British Miscellaneous stored articles.
  • v. To cut down (trees) and prepare as marketable timber.
  • v. To cut down the timber of.
  • v. Chiefly British To clutter with or as if with unused articles.
  • verb-intransitive. To cut and prepare timber for marketing.
  • verb-intransitive. To walk or move with heavy clumsiness. See Synonyms at blunder.
  • verb-intransitive. To move with a rumbling noise.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Wood intended as a building material.
  • n. Useless things that are stored away
  • v. to move clumsily
  • v. to load down with things, to fill, to encumber
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • v. To heap together in disorder.
  • v. To fill or encumber with lumber.
  • verb-intransitive. To move heavily, as if burdened.
  • verb-intransitive. To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.
  • verb-intransitive. To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make a heavy rumbling noise; rumble: chiefly in the present participle.
  • To move heavily or cumbrously: chiefly in the present participle.
  • To stumble. Also lumper.
  • n. Things, more or less bulky and cumbersome, thrown aside (or which may be thrown aside) as of no present use or value.
  • n. Timber sawed or split for use, as beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, and the like.
  • n. Useless and cumbersome weight, bulk, etc.
  • n. Foolish or ribald talk.
  • n. Harm; mischief.
  • To heap together in disorder.
  • To fill with lumber; encumber with anything useless: as, to lumber a room: often with up.
  • To cut timber in the forest and prepare it for market.
  • n. A pawnbroker's shop.
  • n. A pledge; a pawn.
  • To put in pawn; hence, to put in prison.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. cut lumber, as in woods and forests
  • n. an implement used in baseball by the batter
  • n. the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
  • v. move heavily or clumsily
  • Verb Form
    lumbered    lumbering    lumbers   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    cut down    fell    drop    strike down    bat    baseball equipment    walk   
    Form
    lumbered    lumbering   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    rumble    refuse    timber    move    encumber    wood   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Humber    cumber    encumber    number    outnumber    slumber    unencumber   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    timber    coal    rubbish    tobacco    cotton    clumsy    wheat    ponderous    furniture    firewood