lumbering (verb)

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• 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

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• 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

• camp — I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle French, probably from Middle French dialect (Picard) or Old Occitan, from Latin campus plain, field Date: 1528 1. a. a place usually away from urban areas where tents or simple buildings (as… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• me — /mee/, pron. 1. the objective case of I, used as a direct or indirect object: They asked me to the party. Give me your hand. 2. Informal. (used instead of the pronoun I in the predicate after the verb to be): It s me. 3. Informal. (used instead… …   Universalium

• log — I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English logge Date: 14th century 1. a usually bulky piece or length of a cut or fallen tree; especially a length of a tree trunk ready for sawing and over six feet (1.8 meters) long 2. an… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• 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

• lop — I. noun Etymology: Middle English loppe Date: 14th century material cut away from a tree; especially parts discarded in lumbering II. transitive verb (lopped; lopping) Date: 1519 1. a …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• clatch — ˈklach noun ( es) Etymology: probably alteration of clat (I) 1. : a clod (as of mud) : daub, mess 2. Scotland : a slu …   Useful english dictionary

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• 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