Lumber (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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noun
  1. timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
  2. miscellaneous useless articles that are stored away.
verb (used without object)
  1. to cut timber and prepare it for market.
  2. to become useless or to be stored away as useless.
verb (used with object)
  1. to convert (a specified amount, area, etc.) into lumber: We lumbered more than a million acres last year.
  2. to heap together in disorder.
  3. to fill up or obstruct with miscellaneous useless articles; encumber.
verb (used without object)
  1. to move clumsily or heavily, especially from great or ponderous bulk: overloaded wagons lumbering down the dirt road.
  2. to make a rumbling noise.
noun
  1. mainly US and Canadian
    • logs; sawn timber
    • cut timber, esp when sawn and dressed ready for use in joinery, carpentry, etc
    • (as modifier)
  2. British
    • useless household articles that are stored away
    • (as modifier)
verb
  1. to pile together in a disorderly manner
  2. to fill up or encumber with useless household articles
  3. to convert (the trees) of (a forest) into marketable timber
  4. to burden with something unpleasant, tedious, etc
  5. to arrest; imprison
verb (intr)
  1. to move awkwardly
  2. an obsolete word for rumble
Lumber (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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