lum|ber

lum|ber
lum|ber1 «LUHM buhr», noun, verb.
–n.
1. timber that has been roughly cut into boards, planks, or beams and prepared for use: »

Since 1920, the center of the lumber industry has been in the Pacific Northwest, with the South running a close second (Stanley M. Jepsen).

2. household articles no longer in use; old furniture and other useless things that take up room.
3. Figurative. useless material: »

The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head (Alexander Pope).

–v.i.
to cut and prepare lumber.
–v.t.
1. to obtain lumber from (land).
2. to fill up or obstruct by taking space that is wanted for something else; encumber: »

Do not lumber up my shelf with your collection of stones and insects. Empty bottles lumbered the bottom of every closet (Washington Irving).

3. to heap together in disorder.
╂[originally, useless goods, perhaps early variant of lombard pawnshop]
lum|ber2 «LUHM buhr», verb, noun.
–v.i.
1. to move along heavily and noisily; roll along with difficulty: »

to lumber along like an elephant. The old stagecoach lumbered down the road.

2. to rumble; make a rumbling noise.
–n.
a rumbling noise.
╂[Middle English lomeren; origin uncertain. Compare dialectal Swedish loma walk heavily.]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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