lumber (verb)

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• lumber — ► VERB ▪ move in a slow, heavy, awkward way. ORIGIN perhaps symbolic of clumsy movement …   English terms dictionary

• lumber with — [phrasal verb] lumber (someone) with (something) Brit, informal : to cause (someone) to have (something unwanted or unpleasant) His classmates lumbered him with [=saddled him with] an unfortunate nickname. often used as ( …   Useful english dictionary

• lumber — Verb. To burden. E.g. What am I, a doctor? Don t lumber me with all your medical problems, go to the medical centre. Informal …   English slang and colloquialisms

• lumber — I. intransitive verb (lumbered; lumbering) Etymology: Middle English lomeren Date: 14th century 1. to move ponderously 2. rumble II. noun Etymology: perhaps from Lombard; from the use of pawnshops as storehouses of disused property …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Lumber room — The phrase lumber room is found in British novels at least during the nineteenth century, and the use of the word lumber in this phrase is that found in many obsolescent turns of phrase heard in various English speaking countries. The large… …   Wikipedia

• lumber — [14] Swedish has a dialectal verb loma ‘move heavily’, which is the only clue we have to the antecedents of the otherwise mysterious English verb lumber. The noun, too, which first appears in the 16th century, is difficult to account for. In the… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• lumber — [[t]lʌ̱mbə(r)[/t]] lumbers, lumbering, lumbered 1) N UNCOUNT Lumber consists of trees and large pieces of wood that have been roughly cut up. [mainly AM] It was made of soft lumber, spruce by the look of it... He was going to have to purchase all …   English dictionary

• lumber — [14] Swedish has a dialectal verb loma ‘move heavily’, which is the only clue we have to the antecedents of the otherwise mysterious English verb lumber. The noun, too, which first appears in the 16th century, is difficult to account for. In the… …   Word origins

• lumber — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. wood, logs, timber; planks, boards, paneling, etc. See materials. v. trudge, plod, hobble, bumble. See slowness. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. cut timber, logs, sawed timber, forest products, boards,… …   English dictionary for students

• lumber — lumber1 verb move in a slow, heavy, awkward way. Origin ME lomere, perh. symbolic of clumsy movement. lumber2 noun 1》 Brit. disused articles of furniture that inconveniently take up space. 2》 chiefly N. Amer. partly prepared timber. verb 1》 (usu …   English new terms dictionary

• lumber — I UK [ˈlʌmbə(r)] / US [ˈlʌmbər] verb Word forms lumber : present tense I/you/we/they lumber he/she/it lumbers present participle lumbering past tense lumbered past participle lumbered 1) [transitive] to give someone a job or responsibility that… …   English dictionary