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Definition of Lumber

1. Verb. Move heavily or clumsily. "The children lumber to the playground"; "The heavy man lumbered across the room"

2. Noun. The wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material.

3. Verb. Cut lumber, as in woods and forests.

4. Noun. An implement used in baseball by the batter.

Definition of Lumber

1. n. A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.

2. v. t. To heap together in disorder.

3. v. i. To move heavily, as if burdened.

Definition of Lumber

1. Noun. Wood intended as a building material. ¹

2. Noun. Useless things that are stored away ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) to move clumsily ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) to load down with things, to fill, to encumber ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Lumber

1. to cut down and prepare timber for market [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lumber

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Literary usage of Lumber

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"In a suit by the purchaser against the seller for a breach of contract of sale of lumber, an allegation in the petition that the amount sued for repre- ..."

2. Bulletin by North Carolina Dept. of Conservation and Development, North Carolina Geological Survey (1883-1905), North Carolina Geological and Economic Survey (1894)
"THE lumber INIH'STRY IN EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA. Of the above amounts of lumber sawn there were 1:l8,420000 feet remanufactured at the mills, ..."

3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1914)
"The mill of the Hudson River lumber Company, in whose interest this track is operated, is located at De Ridder, within a few hundred feet of the trunk lines ..."

4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1866)
"lumber TRADE OF CHICAGO.* ILLINOIS is one of the largest of the interior States, ... In these facts we have the explanation why the lumber trad« ..."

5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Before the beginning of the European War wages paid in the lumber industry ... As the cost of lumber at the mills is composed chiefly of raw material cost, ..."

6. The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography: Being the History of the by James Terry White (1910)
"He soon found work in a lumber yard as a day laborer and remained there for four years, saving what he afterwards described as "a very small bunch of money. ..."

7. Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin by Public Affairs Information Service (1920)
"See Waterworks—Reports lumber industry Aeroplane lumber production in British Columbia. RD Craig, table In Casada. Comm. of conservation. ..."

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