Lumber
A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.
Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber.
To heap together in disorder.
To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.
To move heavily, as if burdened.
To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.
To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.
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Lumber Quotations
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head.
Alexander Pope
Our ties are deep and long-standing. We are dependent on each other. And no matter what the issue of the day, whether it be softwood lumber, whether it be a war in Iraq, we need to continue to work together.
Paul Cellucci
I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.
David McCullough
A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.
Jim Bishop
In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion.
Frances E. Willard
Lumber Translations
lumber in German is sich schleppen, Holz
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