lumber
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ball-games
baseball
games
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
Etymology: Exact origin unknown. The earliest recorded reference for the noun was to heavy, useless objects such as old, discarded furniture. Perhaps from the verb lumber in reference to meaning "awkward to move"; Online Etymological Dictionary thinks this may derive from the same root as lame. Possibly influenced by Lumbar, an obsolete variant of Lombard, the Italian immigrant class known for being pawnbrokers and money-lenders in early England. Compare English lumpish.
Inflected forms:
form: lumbers
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: lumbers
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lumbering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lumbered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lumbered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material.
pos: noun
tags: Canada
US
uncountable
usually
examples: Here they live by fishing on the most plentiful coasts in the world; there they fell trees, by the sides of large rivers, for masts and lumber […].
4 December 1883, Chester A. Arthur, Third State of the Union Address
The resources of Alaska, especially in fur, mines, and lumber, are considerable in extent and capable of large development, while its geographical situation is one of political and commercial importance.;
gloss: Old furniture or other items that take up room, or are stored away.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
uncountable
usually
examples: On the ſecond day of my impriſonment, I was viſited by the duke of L⁠—⁠—, a friend of my lord, who found me ſitting upon a trunk, in a poor little dining-room filled with lumber, and lighted with two bits of tallow-candle, which had been left over night.
We made all haste down stairs, and soon threw open the street door, for the reception of as much lumber, of all sorts, as our house would hold, brought into it by several who thought it necessary to move their furniture.
gloss: Useless or cumbrous material.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
uncountable
usually
examples: The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, / With loads of learned lumber in his head,[…]
gloss: A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
usually
examples: a. 1746, Lady Grisell Baillie Murray, Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie
They put all the little plate they had […] in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came.
gloss: A baseball bat.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
usually
gloss: An erect penis.
pos: noun
tags: slang
uncountable
usually
vulgar
gloss: To move clumsily and heavily; to move slowly.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: ...he was only apprized of the arrival of the Monkbarns division by the gee-hupping of the postilion, as the post-chaise lumbered up behind him.
The trooper climbed back on the rock and slid down to take the cadaver lowered to him by Bradly, who lumbered down to assist in carrying it.
2002, Russell Allen, "Incantations of the Apprentice", on Symphony X, The Odyssey.
Through eerie reach of ancient woods / Where lumbering mists arise / I journey for nines moons of the year / To where a land of legend lies
gloss: To load down with things, to fill, to encumber, to impose an unwanted burden on.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They’ve lumbered me with all these suitcases.
I got lumbered with that boring woman all afternoon.
The mean utensils, pewter measures, empty cans and casks, with which this room was lumbered, proclaimed it that of the host, who slept, surrounded by his professional implements of hospitality and stock in trade.
gloss: To heap together in disorder.
pos: verb
examples: so much stuff lumberd together
gloss: To fill or encumber with lumber.
pos: verb
examples: to lumber up a room
gloss: To pawn (goods).
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
slang
transitive
Synonyms: timber
wood
Related words: lumbering
lumberingness
Derived words: bring the lumber
dimensional lumber
dimension lumber
lumberdom
lumberer
lumberjack
lumber jacket
lumber-jacketed
lumberless
lumberly
lumberman
lumbermill
lumber pie
lumberroom
lumber room
lumbersome
Lumberton
Lumberville
lumberwood
lumbery
lumberyard
lumber yard
lumber with
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