Lumber /(?)/

Lum·ber

Lumber

n.
  1. A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. [Obs.]
    They put all the little plate they had in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came.
    — Lady Murray.
  2. Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.
  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.]

Phrases & Compounds
Lumber kiln
a room in which timber or lumber is dried by artificial heat.
Lumber room
a room in which unused furniture or other lumber is kept.
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.

Lumber

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Lumbered; p. pr. & vb. n. Lumbering

  1. To heap together in disorder.
  2. To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.

Lumber

v. i.
  1. To move heavily, as if burdened.
  2. To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.
  3. To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market. [U.S.]