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Definitions for Lumber

[1] timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
[2] miscellaneous useless articles that are stored away.
[3] to cut timber and prepare it for market.
[4] to become useless or to be stored away as useless.
[5] to convert (a specified amount, area, etc.) into lumber: We lumbered more than a million acres last year.
[6] to heap together in disorder.
[7] to fill up or obstruct with miscellaneous useless articles; encumber.
[8] to move clumsily or heavily, especially from great or ponderous bulk: overloaded wagons lumbering down the dirt road.
[9] to make a rumbling noise.
[10] mainly US and Canadian logs; sawn timber cut timber, esp when sawn and dressed ready for use in joinery, carpentry, etc (as modifier ) the lumber trade
[11] British useless household articles that are stored away (as modifier ) lumber room
[12] (tr) to pile together in a disorderly manner
[13] (tr) to fill up or encumber with useless household articles
[14] mainly US and Canadian to convert (the trees) of (a forest) into marketable timber
[15] (tr) British informal to burden with something unpleasant, tedious, etc
[16] (tr) Australian to arrest; imprison
[17] to move awkwardly
[18] an obsolete word for rumble

Words related to Lumber

slog, shuffle, trudge, waddle, plod, trundle, stump, lump, barge, clump, shamble, galumph, load, lade, land, saddle, tax, cumber, encumber, charge

Words nearby Lumber

lumbar rib, lumbar splanchnic nerve, lumbar triangle, lumbar vein, lumbarization, lumber, lumber jacket, lumber river, lumber room, lumbering, lumberjack

Origin of Lumber

21300–50; Middle English lomeren; compare dialectal Swedish lomra to resound, loma to walk heavily

Other words from Lumber

lum·ber·er , noun
lum·ber·less , adjective
lum·ber·ly , adjective

Word origin for Lumber

C14 lomeren; perhaps related to lome lame 1 , Swedish dialect loma to move ponderously

Synonyms for Lumber

plod, shuffle, slog, trudge, trundle, waddle, barge, clump, galumph, lump, shamble, stump