Word Definition

Lumber

  1. To heap together in disorder.
  2. To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.
  3. Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.
  4. To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.
  5. A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
  6. To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.
  7. To move heavily, as if burdened.
  8. Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber.