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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024lum•ber1 /ˈlʌmbɚ/USA pronunciation n. [uncountable]- Buildingtimber or wood from a tree sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
lum•ber•er, n. [countable] lum•ber•man, n. [countable], pl. -men. lum•ber2 /ˈlʌmbɚ/USA pronunciation v. [no object]- to move clumsily or heavily, esp. from great weight or size:The huge truck lumbered onto the highway.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024lum•ber1 (lum′bər),USA pronunciation n. - Buildingtimber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
- miscellaneous useless articles that are stored away.
v.i. - Buildingto cut timber and prepare it for market.
- to become useless or to be stored away as useless.
v.t. - to convert (a specified amount, area, etc.) into lumber:We lumbered more than a million acres last year.
- to heap together in disorder.
- to fill up or obstruct with miscellaneous useless articles;
encumber.
- 1545–55; origin, originally noun, nominal use of lumber2; i.e., useless goods that weigh one down, impede one's movements
- to move clumsily or heavily, esp. from great or ponderous bulk:overloaded wagons lumbering down the dirt road.
- to make a rumbling noise.
- 1300–50; Middle English lomeren; compare dialect, dialectal Swedish lomra to resound, loma to walk heavily
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged trudge, barge, plod.
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