lumber
Noun
(–)
(uncountable) Wood intended as a building material.
* 1782, H. de Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer
- 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 ;
Useless things that are stored away
* 1711, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
- The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, / With loads of learned lumber in his head,
A pawnbroker’s shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
* Lady Murray
- They put all the little plate they had in the lumber , which is pawning it, till the ships came.
Verb
(en verb )
to move clumsily
* 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary
- …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.
to load down with things, to fill, to encumber
* 1822, Sir Walter Scott, Peveril of the Peak
- 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.
To heap together in disorder.
* Rymer
- stuff lumbered together
To fill or encumber with lumber.
- to lumber up a room
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timber
English
Noun
(wikipedia timber )
(en noun )
(uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
(British, uncountable) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
(countable) A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof. Historically also used in the plural, as in “ship’s timbers”.
(archaic) A certain quantity of fur skins (as of martens, ermines, sables, etc.) packed between boards; in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty. Also timmer”, ”timbre .
(firearms, informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
Synonyms
* (trees considered as a source of wood) timberland, forest
* (wood that has been cut ready for construction) lumber (US), wood
* (beam used to support a roof) beam, rafter
Derived terms
* half-timbered
* shiver me timbers
* timbered
* timberland
* timberline
* timber wolf
* timberyard
Interjection
timber!
Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.
Verb
(en verb )
To fit with timbers.
- timbering a roof
(falconry) To light or land on a tree.
(obsolete) To make a nest.
To surmount as a timber does.
(Webster 1913 )
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