Meaning

6 senses
  1. (Canada, US, uncountable, usually)Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material.

    Bauholz

    пиломатериа́лыpilomateriály, древеси́наdrevesína, лесоматериа́лlesomateriál

    the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material

  2. (figuratively, uncountable, usually)Useless or cumbrous material.

  3. (slang, uncountable, usually)A baseball bat.

    an implement used in baseball by the batter

  4. (slang, uncountable, usually, vulgar)An erect penis.

  5. (archaic, uncountable, usually)Old furniture or other items that take up room, or are stored away.

  6. (obsolete, uncountable, usually)A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.

Examples

35 sentences
  1. Cover that lumber with a tarp.

    ruНакройте эти доски брезентом.

    deDeck das Holz mit einer Plane ab!

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  2. Nowadays, finding good lumber is hard.

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  3. Tom found work in a lumber yard.

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  4. Are you still in the lumber business?

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  5. Tom made a box out of scrap lumber.

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Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
wood as building material:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
wood as building material:

Origin

Exact origin unknown. The earliest recorded reference for the noun was to heavy, useless o

Exact origin unknown. The earliest recorded reference for the noun was to heavy, useless objects such as old, discarded furniture. Perhaps from the verb lumber in reference to meaning "awkward to move"; Online Etymological Dictionary thinks this may derive from the same root as lame. Possibly influenced by Lumbar, an obsolete variant of Lombard, the Italian immigrant class known for being pawnbrokers and money-lenders in early England. Compare English lumpish.

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Forms

plural: lumbers
Singularlumber

uncountable

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material:timber
  • an implement used in baseball by the batter:baseball bat

Word family

18 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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