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lumber

LUM'BER, n.

1. Any thing useless and cumbersome, or things bulky and thrown aside as of no use.

The very bed was violated - and thrown among the common lumber.

2. In America, timber sawed or split for use; as beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops and the like.

3. Harm; mischief. [Local.]

LUM'BER, v.t.

1. To heap together in disorder.

2. To fill with lumber; as, to lumber a room.


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LUM'BER, n.

1. Any thing useless and cumbersome, or things bulky and thrown aside as of no use.

The very bed was violated - and thrown among the common lumber.

2. In America, timber sawed or split for use; as beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops and the like.

3. Harm; mischief. [Local.]

LUM'BER, v.t.

1. To heap together in disorder.

2. To fill with lumber; as, to lumber a room.

LUM'BER, n. [allied to Sax. leoma, utensils, or to lump, clump, mass, or Dan. lumpe, a rag; lumperie, trifles; Sw. lumpor, rags, old cloths; D. lomp; G. lumpen; Fr. lambeau. In French, lambourde is a joist.]

  1. Any thing useless and cumbersome, or things bulky an thrown aside or of no use. The very bed was violated … / And thrown among the common lumber. – Otway.
  2. In America, timber sawed or split for use; as beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops and the like.
  3. Harm; mischief. [Local.] Pegge.

LUM'BER, v.t.

  1. To heap together in disorder. – Rymer.
  2. To fill with lumber; as, to lumber a room.

Lum"ber
  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. To heap together in disorder.

    " Stuff lumbered together." Rymer.
  3. To move heavily, as if burdened.
  4. Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.
  5. To fill or encumber with lumber] as, to lumber up a room.
  6. To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.

    Cowper.
  7. 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.

  8. To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.

    [U.S.]
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Lumber

LUM'BER, noun

1. Any thing useless and cumbersome, or things bulky and thrown aside as of no use.

The very bed was violated - and thrown among the common lumber

2. In America, timber sawed or split for use; as beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops and the like.

3. Harm; mischief. [Local.]

LUM'BER, verb transitive

1. To heap together in disorder.

2. To fill with lumber; as, to lumber a room.

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