lumber

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.2.1 Homophones 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Synonyms 1.3.2 Translations 1.4 Verb 1.4.1 Related terms

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Unknown origin.

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: lŭmʹbə IPA: /ˈlʌm.bə/, SAMPA: /"lVm.b@/
• (US) enPR: lŭmʹbər IPA: /ˈlʌm.bɚ/, SAMPA: /"lVm.b@`/

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  Rhymes: -ʌmbə(r)

[edit] Homophones

• lumbar (depending on pronunciation)

[edit] Noun

Wikipedia

lumber

1. (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;

2. 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,

[edit] Synonyms

• timber
• wood

[edit] Translations

[edit] Verb

to lumber (third-person singular simple present lumbers, present participle lumbering, simple past and past participle lumbered)

1. (intransitive) 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.

2. (transitive) 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.

[edit] Related terms

• lumbering