lumber
/ˈlʌm.bə//ˈlʌm.bɚ/
noun
- 1
Old furniture or other items that take up room, or are stored away.
- 2
Useless or cumbrous material.
- 3
A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
- 4
Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material.
- 5
A baseball bat.
verb
- 1
To move clumsily and heavily; to move slowly.
- 2
(with with) To load down with things, to fill, to encumber, to impose an unwanted burden on
“I got lumbered with that boring woman all afternoon.”
- 3
To heap together in disorder.
- 4
To fill or encumber with lumber.
“to lumber up a room”
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