lumber
11lumber — {{11}}lumber (n.) timber sawn into rough planks, 1660s, Amer.Eng. (Massachusetts), earlier disused bit of furniture; heavy, useless objects (1550s), probably from LUMBER (Cf. lumber) (v.), perhaps influenced by Lombard, from the Italian… …
12lumber — I. intransitive verb (lumbered; lumbering) Etymology: Middle English lomeren Date: 14th century 1. to move ponderously 2. rumble II. noun Etymology: perhaps from Lombard; from the use of pawnshops as storehouses of disused property …
13lumber — I n. (esp. AE) green; seasoned lumber (CE has timber) II v. (P; intr.) the bear lumbered through the forest III v. (colloq.) (BE) (D; tr.) ( to burden ) to lumber with (I ve been lumbered with all their problems) * * * [ lʌmbə] seasoned lumber… …
14lumber — 1) n British a. trouble, burdensome difficulties. This sense of the word is usually expressed by the cockney phrases in lumber or in dead lumber . b. a fight or struggle. A word which in working class, particularly northern, usage is often in the …
15lumber — [[t]lʌ̱mbə(r)[/t]] lumbers, lumbering, lumbered 1) N UNCOUNT Lumber consists of trees and large pieces of wood that have been roughly cut up. [mainly AM] It was made of soft lumber, spruce by the look of it... He was going to have to purchase all …
16lumber — 1. v.intr. (usu. foll. by along, past, by, etc.) move in a slow clumsy noisy way. Derivatives: lumbering adj. Etymology: ME lomere, perh. imit. 2. n. & v. n. 1 disused articles of furniture etc. inconveniently taking up space. 2 useless or… …
17lumber — lumber1 lumberer, n. lumberless, adj. /lum beuhr/, n. 1. timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc. 2. miscellaneous useless articles that are stored away. v.i. 3. to cut timber and prepare it for market. 4. to become useless or to be stored …
18lumber — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. wood, logs, timber; planks, boards, paneling, etc. See materials. v. trudge, plod, hobble, bumble. See slowness. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. cut timber, logs, sawed timber, forest products, boards,… …
19lumber — lum|ber1 [ˈlʌmbə US ər] v [Sense: 1; Date: 1300 1400; Origin: Perhaps from a Scandinavian language.] [Sense: 2 3; Date: 1800 1900; Origin: LUMBER2] 1.) [I always + adverb/preposition] to move in a slow, awkward way lumber up/towards/into/along… …
20lumber — I UK [ˈlʌmbə(r)] / US [ˈlʌmbər] verb Word forms lumber : present tense I/you/we/they lumber he/she/it lumbers present participle lumbering past tense lumbered past participle lumbered 1) [transitive] to give someone a job or responsibility that… …
