The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lumber \Lum"ber\, n. [Prob. fr. Lombard, the Lombards being the money lenders and pawnbrokers of the Middle Ages. A lumber room was, according to Trench, originally a Lombard room, or room where the Lombard pawnbroker stored his pledges. See Lombard.]
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A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. [Obs.]
They put all the little plate they had in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came.
--Lady Murray. Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.
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Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber. [U.S.]
Lumber kiln, a room in which timber or lumber is dried by artificial heat. [U.S.]
Lumber room, a room in which unused furniture or other lumber is kept. [U.S.]
Lumber wagon, a heavy rough wagon, without springs, used for general farmwork, etc.
dimensional lumber, lumber, usually of pine, which is sold as beams or planks having a specified nominal cross-section, usually in inches, such a two-by-four, two-by-six, four-by-four, etc.
Usage examples of "lumber wagon".
She removed Hugh from the management of the mill, put him to driving a lumber wagon and closed the final details of hiring Johnnie Gallegher.
Now the lumber wagon had made it through the gap and pulled up by Sapphire until the way ahead was clear.
The six waited for a lumber wagon to rumble past before crossing the divided pavement of the Avenue.
The boy reluctantly parted with one of the garage's loaners, a 1957 Nash that steered l:like a lumber wagon.