Lumber

Noun
lumber


 * 1)  Wood intended as a building material.
 * 2) * 1782, H. de Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer
 * Here they live by fishing on the most plentiful coasts in the world; there they fell trees, by the sides of large rivers, for masts and lumber;
 * 1) Useless things that are stored away
 * 2) * 1711, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
 * ... The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, / With loads of learned lumber in his head,

Synonyms

 * timber
 * wood

Verb

 * 1)  to move clumsily
 * 2) * 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary
 * ...he was only apprized of the arrival of the Monkbarns division by the gee-hupping of the postilion, as the post-chaise lumbered up behind him.
 * 1)  to load down with things, to fill, to encumber
 * 2) * 1822, Sir Walter Scott, Peveril of the Peak
 * The mean utensils, pewter measures, empty cans and casks, with which this room was lumbered, proclaimed it that of the host, who slept surrounded by his professional implements of hospitality and stock-in-trade.

Related terms

 * lumbering

Adverbs for Lumber
ponderously; heavily; monotonously; peacefully; stupidly; phlegmatically; lifelessly; solidly; soddenly; stolidly; passionlessly.

Thesaurus
amble, barge, be all thumbs, beam, beams, billet, blunder, blunder away, blunder into, blunder on, blunder upon, board, boarding, boards, boggle, botch, bowl along, bumble, bundle, bungle, burden, burthen, butcher, cargo, charge, chug on, clamjamfry, clapboard, clog, clump, clutter, commit a gaffe, cord, cordwood, cramp, cripple, cross, cumber, cumbrance, deadweight, deal, debris, difficulty, disadvantage, drag, driftwood, dust, embarrass, embarrassment, encumber, encumbrance, enmesh, ensnarl, entangle, entoil, entrammel, entrap, entwine, faux pas, fetter, firewood, flounce, flounder, foot, footslog, freight, fumble, halt, hamper, hamstring, handicap, hardwood, hippety-hop, hitch, hobble, hop, impede, impediment, impedimenta, impose upon, imposition, inconvenience, involve, jog, jog on, jolt, jumble, jump, junk, lade, lame, land, lath, lathing, lathwork, lime, limp, litter, load, log, lunge, lurch, mar, mince, miscue, muddle, muff, murder, net, odds and ends, onus, overload, pace, pack, paddle, panelboard, paneling, panelwork, peg, penalty, piaffe, piaffer, plank, planking, planks, play havoc with, plod, plod along, plug, plug along, plyboard, plywood, pole, post, prance, press down, puncheon, rack, raff, rejects, riffraff, roll, rub on, rubbish, rubble, saddle, saddle with, sashay, saunter, schlep, scrap, scuff, scuffle, scuttle, shackle, shake, shamble, sheathing, sheathing board, sheeting, shingle, shoddy, shuffle, sideboard, siding, sidle, single-foot, skip, slab, slat, slink, slip, slither, slog, slouch, snarl, softwood, splat, spoil, stagger, stalk, stamp, stave, stick, stick of wood, stomp, stovewood, straddle, straggle, stride, stroll, strut, stumble, stump, swagger, swing, tangle, tax, three-by-four, timber, timbering, timberwork, tittup, toddle, toil, totter, traipse, trammel, tramp, trash, trip, trouble, truck, trudge, two-by-four, waddle, wamble, weatherboard, weigh, weigh down, weight, white elephant, wiggle, wobble, wood

Etymology
Unknown origin.

Noun

 * Arabic:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch: timmerhout
 * Finnish:
 * French: bois de charpente
 * German: Bauholz
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: crainn leagtha


 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 材木 (ざいもく, zaimoku)
 * Korean: 제목 (jaemok)
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: пиломатериалы
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:

Anagrams

 * rumble
 * umbrel