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• shop lumber — noun : factory lumber …   Useful english dictionary

• Lumber — Lum ber, n. [Prob. fr. Lombard, the Lombards being the money lenders and pawnbrokers of the Middle Ages. A lumber room was, according to Trench, originally a Lombard room, or room where the Lombard pawnbroker stored his pledges. See {Lombard}.] 1 …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Lumber kiln — Lumber Lum ber, n. [Prob. fr. Lombard, the Lombards being the money lenders and pawnbrokers of the Middle Ages. A lumber room was, according to Trench, originally a Lombard room, or room where the Lombard pawnbroker stored his pledges. See… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Lumber room — Lumber Lum ber, n. [Prob. fr. Lombard, the Lombards being the money lenders and pawnbrokers of the Middle Ages. A lumber room was, according to Trench, originally a Lombard room, or room where the Lombard pawnbroker stored his pledges. See… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Lumber wagon — Lumber Lum ber, n. [Prob. fr. Lombard, the Lombards being the money lenders and pawnbrokers of the Middle Ages. A lumber room was, according to Trench, originally a Lombard room, or room where the Lombard pawnbroker stored his pledges. See… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• lumber — lumber1 [lum′bər] n. [< ? LOMBARD: orig., pawnbroker s shop or storeroom, hence pawned articles in storage, hence stored articles, hence lumber] 1. miscellaneous discarded household articles, furniture, etc. stored away or taking up room ☆ 2.… …   English World dictionary

• lumber — {{11}}lumber (n.) timber sawn into rough planks, 1660s, Amer.Eng. (Massachusetts), earlier disused bit of furniture; heavy, useless objects (1550s), probably from LUMBER (Cf. lumber) (v.), perhaps influenced by Lombard, from the Italian… …   Etymology dictionary

• lumber — 1. v.intr. (usu. foll. by along, past, by, etc.) move in a slow clumsy noisy way. Derivatives: lumbering adj. Etymology: ME lomere, perh. imit. 2. n. & v. n. 1 disused articles of furniture etc. inconveniently taking up space. 2 useless or… …   Useful english dictionary

• lumber — lum|ber1 [ˈlʌmbə US ər] v [Sense: 1; Date: 1300 1400; Origin: Perhaps from a Scandinavian language.] [Sense: 2 3; Date: 1800 1900; Origin: LUMBER2] 1.) [I always + adverb/preposition] to move in a slow, awkward way lumber up/towards/into/along… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• 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

• dimensional lumber — Lumber Lum ber, n. [Prob. fr. Lombard, the Lombards being the money lenders and pawnbrokers of the Middle Ages. A lumber room was, according to Trench, originally a Lombard room, or room where the Lombard pawnbroker stored his pledges. See… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English