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verb ˈlʌmbəˈləmbər no object, with adverbial of direction Move in a slow, heavy, awkward way. Example sentencesExamples - The freighter lumbered awkwardly toward the base.
- I saw walruses and heard their grunts as they lumbered slowly off their ice floes.
- A local handyman would lumber past each day on his way from odd-job to odd-job, eying little twelve-year-old Laura with a smile and a hello.
- Trucks steadily lumber across the bridge linking the countries, ferrying North Korean raw materials into China and Chinese manufactured goods to market in North Korea.
- Not many ordinary people were out on the streets, but there was a heavy population of police and army trucks lumbered ponderously around.
- The research showed they would later unfailingly lumber over to the farmers who gave them food and shun the others.
- They moved into the flat upstairs and they lumbered about like huge beasts, stomping up and down with no thought of the excess noise being transmitted to my ears below.
- I slung her over my shoulder and lumbered down the stairs to throw her out on the street.
- Both were big and lumbering and unfeasibly tough, and it could be said that neither had an awful lot to speak of between the ears, but they were a family unit, and both cared for the other far more than they cared for themselves.
- A large and heavily muscled guard lumbered past his door.
- Manta rays cruise past, turtles lumber along, sharks scope the scene, the odd octopus creeps along the ocean floor, and further out, the whale sharks make their way north.
- But the humpback gives the lie to the notion that things of great bulk move only by lumbering.
- The maids there didn't even look up as he lumbered past ovens and drying herbs.
- But the last two seasons, his moves became lumbering.
- We watched on TV from a helicopter vantage point, as a caravan of five fire trucks lumbered up the vacant, closed-down interstate to battle the blaze.
- Kerry lumbers off his stool and seems a bit slowed down.
- For as long as I can remember, he has looked like an elephant, heavy and lumbering with big ears and baggy wrinkled skin.
- An orange dump truck lumbers up the street followed by workers with picks and sledgehammers.
- What films remain of Jess show him not to be lumbering and slow but rather agile and balanced.
- The heavy steel door swung open and Grimes lumbered awkwardly through the entrance, key ring bouncing from the ridges of fat around his waist.
Synonyms lurch, stumble, shamble, shuffle, reel, waddle trudge, clump, stump, plod, tramp, walk heavily/clumsily, stamp, stomp, thump, thud, bang Scottish & Northern Irish sprauchle Scottish & Irish traik informal galumph clumsy, awkward, heavy-footed, blundering, bumbling, inept, maladroit, uncoordinated, ungainly, oafish, like a bull in a china shop, ungraceful, gauche, lumpish, cumbersome, ponderous, laborious, stolid informal clodhopping, hulking archaic lubberly
Origin Late Middle English lomere, perhaps symbolic of clumsy movement. The earliest lumber in English meant ‘to move in a slow, heavy, awkward way’. Its origin is not known, but its form may have been intended to suggest clumsiness or heaviness, rather like lump (Middle English). This may have been the origin of lumber in the sense ‘disused furniture and articles that take up space’, but people also associated the term with the old word lumber meaning ‘a pawnbroker's shop’, which was an alteration of Lombard or ‘person from Lombardy’. The mainly North American sense ‘timber sawn into rough planks’ appears to be a development of the ‘disused furniture’ meaning, as is the verb to be lumbered or burdened with something unwanted. The slang phrase in lumber, ‘in trouble’, originally meant ‘in pawn, pawned’.
Rhymes Columba, cumber, encumber, Humber, lumbar, number, outnumber, rumba, slumber, umber noun ˈlʌmbəˈləmbər mass noun1British Articles of furniture or other household items that are no longer useful and inconveniently take up storage space. as modifier a lumber room Example sentencesExamples - In trad Japanese houses, this whole thing is supposed to be placed in a special location built for it between the first and second floors, which is not possible in our house, so the image was leaned against a pile of lumber to party with us.
- Hence perhaps why much is made of the variety of subject matter in Sebald's novels, like a lumber room in a rundown mansion ready for an enthusiast's rummage.
- I grabbed many cans of Lysol, loaded them into the car, and continued to the storage room where lumber lay about.
Synonyms jumble, clutter, odds and ends, bits and pieces, bits and bobs, rummage, bric-a-brac, oddments, miscellanea, sundries, knick-knacks, flotsam and jetsam, cast-offs, white elephants, stuff, things rejects, trash, refuse, rubbish, litter informal junk, odds and sods, gubbins, clobber 2North American Timber sawn into rough planks or otherwise partly prepared. he sat at a makeshift desk of unfinished lumber as modifier a lumber company Example sentencesExamples - Penetrating stains or preservative treatments are preferred for rough sawn lumber.
- If cut for lumber, this single tree would yield 600, 120 board feet, the makings of 40 five-room houses.
- The other two projects are simply made from standard-size lumber.
- At first sight it appears to be an ordinary piece of pine lumber set on the floor.
- Some connectors are made for standard sizes of solid sawn lumber.
- In the face of devastation caused by widespread deforestation, some furniture makers are turning to alternative sources of lumber.
- Special precautions need to be taken when cutting pressure treated lumber.
- You can frame raised beds with lumber or form unframed beds like ours by shaping soil into level, flat-sided mounds about 8 inches high.
- A major trade dispute is brewing over the export of Canadian softwood lumber to the United States.
- Treated lumber has been around for decades, and is generally considered to be a very safe product.
- A total of six ships have put in here asking for both furs and lumber in the past two months.
- Pieces of lumber appeared, were carefully measured and then taken back to the workshop for fine tuning.
- Born in Glasgow in 1850, he migrated at the age of four to Quebec, where his father built up a lucrative career in shipbuilding and lumber.
- The project calls only for standard size pine lumber that is readily available at your local home improvement center.
- Or you can build a simple three or four side enclosure out of scrap lumber.
- He also sells lumber created from fallen trees on his own farm.
- Made with standard size lumber, and built from full-size plans, just a handful of common tools are required to build this project in a weekend.
- Natural beauty is integral to every piece of redwood lumber.
- The engineered beams span longer runs and withstand higher stresses than traditional sawn lumber.
- Simple and inexpensive to build, our tree seat is made from standard size lumber.
Synonyms timber, wood, planks, planking
verb ˈlʌmbəˈləmbər 1usually be lumbered withBritish informal with object Burden (someone) with something unwanted. the banks do not want to be lumbered with a building that they cannot sell Example sentencesExamples - Brussels may be the home of the EU and, in some eyes, lumbered with that organisation's bureaucratic and dull reputation, but nothing could be further from the truth.
- Deregulation opened entry to all comers, and the new airlines were not lumbered with labour contracts negotiated in the era in which regulators allowed carriers to use their monopolies to pass their costs on to captive travellers.
- Their real fear is that Hutchison will appeal and they'll be lumbered with the costs.
- Surely it must be better to capitalise on Bradford's assets than be lumbered with an American consultancy of unknown competence, whose prime motivation will be to maximise its fee?
- Given that it is unlikely that the State will wish to be lumbered with the crushing financial burden of this obsolete dinosaur from a decadent age, an interested body of Sligo citizens should be formed immediately.
- The bad news is that, apparently, work at Bow Road is due to continue until July 2005, nine months later than originally planned, so you're lumbered with my regular renovation updates for another year at least.
- Of course if Labour wanted to be really cunning, they could now drop the plan and leave the Tories with the option of a hilarious U-turn or being lumbered with an unpopular policy they didn't really want.
- The boom times are over - not least for those borrowers who have suddenly been lumbered with their lenders' costly standard rates at the end of a fixed-rate deal.
- Hospital trusts are also often lumbered with mounting legal costs and bills for experts to investigate any allegations before the case can finally be resolved and the doctor is either reinstated or sacked.
- And finally - the question that every interviewer asks - how did he get lumbered with such an appallingly unattractive surname?
- Regrettably that means that South Lakeland will be lumbered with staying in a two-tier Cumbria at least until the next time local government reorganisation is forced back to the top of the political agenda.
- Low cost of ownership through self-tuning, self-management capabilities means suppliers are not lumbered with costly end-user support, and end-users do not have to employ database administrators.
- I didn't end up with it purely because of its feel, though: I also didn't want to be lumbered with the vast amounts of junk all the other keyboards were saddled with.
- It is also alleged the group has been lumbered with a huge excess of stock which could involve write-offs of as much as 15 million.
- Finally the LEA was lumbered with meeting increased pension contributions - an added £300,000 bill.
- As I was one of only two blokes in the Ilkley store, I got lumbered with a lot of stockroom work - spending one memorable hot August dealing with deliveries of Christmas trees, cards, and decorations.
- Had the ejection of Beagle 2 failed, Mars Express would have been lumbered with the extra weight for the rest of its mission and its orbital survey of Mars would have been severely hampered.
- A larger firm paying £200,000 per year on the same energy split will be lumbered with an extra £25,000.
- Even the Americans are lumbered with that one picture.
- One of them usually gets a top-of-the-range model, but another is lumbered with a mobile phone camera and expected to perform miracles.
Synonyms burden, saddle, encumber, hamper, impose on, load, oppress, trouble, tax informal land, dump something on someone 2usually as noun lumberingNorth American no object Cut and prepare forest timber for transport and sale. the traditional resource industries of the nation, chiefly fishing and lumbering Example sentencesExamples - Early nineteenth-century colonial economies were based primarily on agriculture, lumbering, and fishing.
- We were forced to purchase rice and wheat with the money we got from lumbering.
- New England farmers are also engaged in lumbering and raising livestock.
- He and his group expected to have a hard go of it in Hokkaido at first, and for a few years crops were poor, but after 1913 their life settled down thanks to the increasing income from lumbering.
- As part of the agreement, Pacific Lumber agrees to strict monitoring of and restrictions on lumbering in its other forest holdings.
- Agriculture, lumbering, mining and the fish habitat are considered in Chapter 8.
- Fishing and lumbering became major enterprises.
- In the late 18th and early 19th centuries lumbering, seal hunting, and whaling attracted a few European settlers to New Zealand.
- Fishing, like lumbering, was in decline, and enterprises which produced only red ink were being quickly jettisoned by those who didn't like that colour.
- Currently, he says, enough waste biomass is being generated by lumbering, by farming, and as urban waste to meet 10 percent of U.S. transportation needs.
Origin Mid 16th century: perhaps from lumber1; later associated with obsolete lumber 'pawnbroker's shop'. verbˈlʌmbəˈləmbər [with object]Scottish informal Casually strike up a relationship with (a prospective sexual partner) he lumbered her from a pub in London
noun ˈlʌmbəˈləmbər Scottish informal A person regarded as a prospective sexual partner. they end the evening in a disco where they wait for a lumber Example sentencesExamples - In the admittedly unlikely event of his coming back to see how Scotland is progressing, he will have no problem getting a lumber.
- The hub was the union where, he said, ‘you could eat, drink and find yourself a lumber for the night, or whatever’.
Origin 1960s: of unknown origin. verbˈləmbərˈləmbər no object, with adverbial of direction Move in a slow, heavy, awkward way. a truck filled his mirror and lumbered past Example sentencesExamples - An orange dump truck lumbers up the street followed by workers with picks and sledgehammers.
- But the humpback gives the lie to the notion that things of great bulk move only by lumbering.
- I saw walruses and heard their grunts as they lumbered slowly off their ice floes.
- We watched on TV from a helicopter vantage point, as a caravan of five fire trucks lumbered up the vacant, closed-down interstate to battle the blaze.
- Manta rays cruise past, turtles lumber along, sharks scope the scene, the odd octopus creeps along the ocean floor, and further out, the whale sharks make their way north.
- A large and heavily muscled guard lumbered past his door.
- Both were big and lumbering and unfeasibly tough, and it could be said that neither had an awful lot to speak of between the ears, but they were a family unit, and both cared for the other far more than they cared for themselves.
- They moved into the flat upstairs and they lumbered about like huge beasts, stomping up and down with no thought of the excess noise being transmitted to my ears below.
- For as long as I can remember, he has looked like an elephant, heavy and lumbering with big ears and baggy wrinkled skin.
- Kerry lumbers off his stool and seems a bit slowed down.
- The maids there didn't even look up as he lumbered past ovens and drying herbs.
- A local handyman would lumber past each day on his way from odd-job to odd-job, eying little twelve-year-old Laura with a smile and a hello.
- I slung her over my shoulder and lumbered down the stairs to throw her out on the street.
- Not many ordinary people were out on the streets, but there was a heavy population of police and army trucks lumbered ponderously around.
- What films remain of Jess show him not to be lumbering and slow but rather agile and balanced.
- The heavy steel door swung open and Grimes lumbered awkwardly through the entrance, key ring bouncing from the ridges of fat around his waist.
- The research showed they would later unfailingly lumber over to the farmers who gave them food and shun the others.
- The freighter lumbered awkwardly toward the base.
- But the last two seasons, his moves became lumbering.
- Trucks steadily lumber across the bridge linking the countries, ferrying North Korean raw materials into China and Chinese manufactured goods to market in North Korea.
Synonyms clumsy, awkward, heavy-footed, blundering, bumbling, inept, maladroit, uncoordinated, ungainly, oafish, like a bull in a china shop, ungraceful, gauche, lumpish, cumbersome, ponderous, laborious, stolid lurch, stumble, shamble, shuffle, reel, waddle
Origin Late Middle English lomere, perhaps symbolic of clumsy movement. nounˈləmbərˈləmbər 1North American Timber sawn into rough planks or otherwise partly prepared. Example sentencesExamples - Born in Glasgow in 1850, he migrated at the age of four to Quebec, where his father built up a lucrative career in shipbuilding and lumber.
- He also sells lumber created from fallen trees on his own farm.
- Or you can build a simple three or four side enclosure out of scrap lumber.
- The other two projects are simply made from standard-size lumber.
- Penetrating stains or preservative treatments are preferred for rough sawn lumber.
- At first sight it appears to be an ordinary piece of pine lumber set on the floor.
- You can frame raised beds with lumber or form unframed beds like ours by shaping soil into level, flat-sided mounds about 8 inches high.
- Made with standard size lumber, and built from full-size plans, just a handful of common tools are required to build this project in a weekend.
- The engineered beams span longer runs and withstand higher stresses than traditional sawn lumber.
- Natural beauty is integral to every piece of redwood lumber.
- Simple and inexpensive to build, our tree seat is made from standard size lumber.
- If cut for lumber, this single tree would yield 600, 120 board feet, the makings of 40 five-room houses.
- Pieces of lumber appeared, were carefully measured and then taken back to the workshop for fine tuning.
- A total of six ships have put in here asking for both furs and lumber in the past two months.
- Some connectors are made for standard sizes of solid sawn lumber.
- A major trade dispute is brewing over the export of Canadian softwood lumber to the United States.
- The project calls only for standard size pine lumber that is readily available at your local home improvement center.
- Treated lumber has been around for decades, and is generally considered to be a very safe product.
- Special precautions need to be taken when cutting pressure treated lumber.
- In the face of devastation caused by widespread deforestation, some furniture makers are turning to alternative sources of lumber.
Synonyms timber, wood, planks, planking 2British Articles of furniture or other household items that are no longer useful and inconveniently take up storage space. as modifier a lumber room Example sentencesExamples - I grabbed many cans of Lysol, loaded them into the car, and continued to the storage room where lumber lay about.
- In trad Japanese houses, this whole thing is supposed to be placed in a special location built for it between the first and second floors, which is not possible in our house, so the image was leaned against a pile of lumber to party with us.
- Hence perhaps why much is made of the variety of subject matter in Sebald's novels, like a lumber room in a rundown mansion ready for an enthusiast's rummage.
Synonyms jumble, clutter, odds and ends, bits and pieces, bits and bobs, rummage, bric-a-brac, oddments, miscellanea, sundries, knick-knacks, flotsam and jetsam, cast-offs, white elephants, stuff, things
verbˈləmbərˈləmbər 1usually as noun lumberingNorth American no object Cut and prepare forest timber for transport and sale. the traditional resource industries of the nation, chiefly fishing and lumbering Example sentencesExamples - Fishing and lumbering became major enterprises.
- In the late 18th and early 19th centuries lumbering, seal hunting, and whaling attracted a few European settlers to New Zealand.
- Agriculture, lumbering, mining and the fish habitat are considered in Chapter 8.
- He and his group expected to have a hard go of it in Hokkaido at first, and for a few years crops were poor, but after 1913 their life settled down thanks to the increasing income from lumbering.
- We were forced to purchase rice and wheat with the money we got from lumbering.
- Fishing, like lumbering, was in decline, and enterprises which produced only red ink were being quickly jettisoned by those who didn't like that colour.
- Currently, he says, enough waste biomass is being generated by lumbering, by farming, and as urban waste to meet 10 percent of U.S. transportation needs.
- As part of the agreement, Pacific Lumber agrees to strict monitoring of and restrictions on lumbering in its other forest holdings.
- New England farmers are also engaged in lumbering and raising livestock.
- Early nineteenth-century colonial economies were based primarily on agriculture, lumbering, and fishing.
2usually be lumbered withBritish informal with object Burden (someone) with an unwanted responsibility, task, or set of circumstances. Example sentencesExamples - Brussels may be the home of the EU and, in some eyes, lumbered with that organisation's bureaucratic and dull reputation, but nothing could be further from the truth.
- Surely it must be better to capitalise on Bradford's assets than be lumbered with an American consultancy of unknown competence, whose prime motivation will be to maximise its fee?
- Given that it is unlikely that the State will wish to be lumbered with the crushing financial burden of this obsolete dinosaur from a decadent age, an interested body of Sligo citizens should be formed immediately.
- Low cost of ownership through self-tuning, self-management capabilities means suppliers are not lumbered with costly end-user support, and end-users do not have to employ database administrators.
- Even the Americans are lumbered with that one picture.
- Hospital trusts are also often lumbered with mounting legal costs and bills for experts to investigate any allegations before the case can finally be resolved and the doctor is either reinstated or sacked.
- Their real fear is that Hutchison will appeal and they'll be lumbered with the costs.
- Deregulation opened entry to all comers, and the new airlines were not lumbered with labour contracts negotiated in the era in which regulators allowed carriers to use their monopolies to pass their costs on to captive travellers.
- The boom times are over - not least for those borrowers who have suddenly been lumbered with their lenders' costly standard rates at the end of a fixed-rate deal.
- The bad news is that, apparently, work at Bow Road is due to continue until July 2005, nine months later than originally planned, so you're lumbered with my regular renovation updates for another year at least.
- A larger firm paying £200,000 per year on the same energy split will be lumbered with an extra £25,000.
- One of them usually gets a top-of-the-range model, but another is lumbered with a mobile phone camera and expected to perform miracles.
- As I was one of only two blokes in the Ilkley store, I got lumbered with a lot of stockroom work - spending one memorable hot August dealing with deliveries of Christmas trees, cards, and decorations.
- I didn't end up with it purely because of its feel, though: I also didn't want to be lumbered with the vast amounts of junk all the other keyboards were saddled with.
- Of course if Labour wanted to be really cunning, they could now drop the plan and leave the Tories with the option of a hilarious U-turn or being lumbered with an unpopular policy they didn't really want.
- Finally the LEA was lumbered with meeting increased pension contributions - an added £300,000 bill.
- Regrettably that means that South Lakeland will be lumbered with staying in a two-tier Cumbria at least until the next time local government reorganisation is forced back to the top of the political agenda.
- Had the ejection of Beagle 2 failed, Mars Express would have been lumbered with the extra weight for the rest of its mission and its orbital survey of Mars would have been severely hampered.
- It is also alleged the group has been lumbered with a huge excess of stock which could involve write-offs of as much as 15 million.
- And finally - the question that every interviewer asks - how did he get lumbered with such an appallingly unattractive surname?
Synonyms burden, saddle, encumber, hamper, impose on, load, oppress, trouble, tax
Origin Mid 16th century: perhaps from lumber; later associated with obsolete lumber ‘pawnbroker's shop’. verbˈləmbərˈləmbər [with object]Scottish informal Casually strike up a relationship with (a prospective sexual partner) he lumbered her from a pub in London
nounˈləmbərˈləmbər Scottish informal A person regarded as a prospective sexual partner. they end the evening in a disco where they wait for a lumber Example sentencesExamples - In the admittedly unlikely event of his coming back to see how Scotland is progressing, he will have no problem getting a lumber.
- The hub was the union where, he said, ‘you could eat, drink and find yourself a lumber for the night, or whatever’.
Origin 1960s: of unknown origin. |