Definition of Lumber

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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

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

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

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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