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lumber

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material [syn: timber ] an implement used in baseball by the batter [syn: baseball bat ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lumber is processed wood. Lumber may also refer to: Lumber, Arkansas , an unincorporated community in the United States Lumber, West Virginia , an unincorporated community in the United States Lumber (Kristiansand) , a neighbourhood of Kristiansand, Norway ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lumber \Lum"ber\, v. i. To move heavily, as if burdened. [Cf. dial. Sw. lomra to resound.] To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble. --Cowper. To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.

Usage examples of lumber.

He was almost convinced that reducing a tree to lumber expunged whatever might be abiding within when he saw the long, hooked tongue emerge from the wall behind the bed.

I saw one of them, but he was deep down, amongst the pack of lumbering Albacore sharks.

Holding steadily in view the easy business ethic that had held sway in that day when arrogant lumber barons had built mansions such as Auk House.

Sulu objected, backing up slowly, eyes fixed on the lumbering reptilian bandersnatch in front of them.

Gasentwickler, and Peggy lumbered last of all, swathed in a new, betasseled, gold-lettered, gloriously scarlet covering.

Hubcap, and Amos Kelso lumbered down the bleachers, the metal steps rattling as they descended.

The sprite buzzed into the air, hovering on his gossamer wings, as the troll lumbered along beside him.

The thinko has shown him pictures of them, spectacularly decadent in size and appearance, long-snouted duckbilled monsters as big as a house and huge lumbering ceratopsians with frilly baroque bony crests and toothy things with knobby horns on their elongated skulls and others with rows of bristling spikes along their high-ridged backs.

The thinko has shown him pictures of them, spectacularly decadent in size and appearance, long-snouted duck-billed monsters as big as a house and huge lumbering ceratopsians with frilly baroque bony crests and toothy things with knobby horns on their elongated skulls and others with rows of bristling spikes along their high-ridged backs.

Among the masts of countless fishing boats, he spied a Tyroshi trading galley off-loading beside a lumbering Ibbenese cog with her black-tarred hull.

With the French sailing north, the Spanish had rechristened the partially demolished place El Castillo de San Diego de Boca Osa and rapidly set about repairing it with shiploads of soft coquina limestone for the walls, lumber and brick for the interiors, and red tiles for the roofs.

French sailing north, the Spanish had rechristened the partially demolished place El Castillo de San Diego de Boca Osa and rapidly set about repairing it with shiploads of soft coquina limestone for the walls, lumber and brick for the interiors, and red tiles for the roofs.

In one night the king died with his three sons, and the drums that thundered their dirge drowned the grim and ominous bells that rang from the carts that lumbered through the streets gathering up the rotting dead.

As the tractor lumbered to a halt, Abbie jumped off the back of the flatbed and charged around to the front to confront Dobie as he climbed out of the truck.

Thus, when easily obtained, aside from the greater advantages of their durability, stone is as cheap in the first instance as lumber, excepting in new districts of country where good building lumber is the chief article of production, and cheaper than brick in any event.