Found 2 items, similar to lumber.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: lumber lumber v 1: move heavily or clumsily; “The heavy man lumbered across the room” [syn: pound] 2: cut lumber, as in woods and forests [syn: log] lumber n 1: the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material [syn: timber] 2: an implement used in baseball by the batter [syn: baseball bat ]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Lumber Lumber \Lum"ber\, n. [Prob. fr. Lombard, the Lombards being the money lenders and pawnbrokers of the Middle Ages. A lumber room was, according to Trench, originally a Lombard room, or room where the Lombard pawnbroker stored his pledges. See Lombard.] 1. A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] They put all the little plate they had in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came. --Lady Murray. [1913 Webster] 2. Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value. [1913 Webster] 3. Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber. [U.S.] [1913 Webster] Lumber kiln, a room in which timber or lumber is dried by artificial heat. [U.S.] Lumber room, a room in which unused furniture or other lumber is kept. [U.S.] Lumber wagon, a heavy rough wagon, without springs, used for general farmwork, etc. dimensional lumber, lumber, usually of pine, which is sold as beams or planks having a specified nominal cross-section, usually in inches, such a two-by-four, two-by-six, four-by-four, etc. [1913 Webster +PJC] Lumber \Lum"ber\, v. i. 1. To move heavily, as if burdened. [1913 Webster] 2. [Cf. dial. Sw. lomra to resound.] To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble. --Cowper. [1913 Webster] 3. To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market. [U.S.] [1913 Webster] Lumber \Lum"ber\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lumbered; p. pr. & vb. n. Lumbering.] 1. To heap together in disorder. “ Stuff lumbered together.” --Rymer. [1913 Webster] 2. To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room. [1913 Webster]