lumber

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

lumbers

1.
(Canada, US, uncountable, usually)Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material.
4 December 1883, Chester A. Arthur, Third State of the Union Address The resources of Alaska, especially in fur, mines, and lumber, are considerable in extent and capable of large development, while its geographical situation is one of political and commercial importance.;
2.
(archaic, uncountable, usually)(now rare) Old furniture or other items that take up room, or are stored away.
We made all haste down stairs, and soon threw open the street door, for the reception of as much lumber, of all sorts, as our house would hold, brought into it by several who thought it necessary to move their furniture.
3.
(figuratively, uncountable, usually)(figurative) Useless or cumbrous material.
4.
(obsolete, uncountable, usually)A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
a. 1746, Lady Grisell Baillie Murray, Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie They put all the little plate they had […] in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came.
5.
(slang, uncountable, usually)(baseball, slang) A baseball bat.
6.
(slang, uncountable, usually, vulgar)An erect penis.

Động từ

verb

V_es/s

lumbers

V_ing/Gerund

lumbering

V_ed/pp

lumbered

1.
(intransitive)To move clumsily and heavily; to move slowly.
2.
(transitive)(transitive, with with) To load down with things, to fill, to encumber, to impose an unwanted burden on.
They’ve lumbered me with all these suitcases.
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
5.
(obsolete, slang, transitive)To pawn (goods).

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timber wood

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Nguồn gốc từ

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.