Definition of lumber Lumber
/lʌˈmbɚ/ - [lumber] - lum•ber
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What does lumber mean?
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NounPlural: lumbers |
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| lumber - the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material | ||
| timber | ||
| building material material used for constructing buildings | ||
| stock the merchandise that a shop has on hand; "they carried a vast inventory of hardware"; "they stopped selling in exact sizes in order to reduce inventory" | ||
| strip a form of erotic entertainment in which a dancer gradually undresses to music; "she did a strip right in front of everyone" | ||
| wood a golf club with a long shaft used to hit long shots; originally made with a wooden head; "metal woods are now standard" | ||
| plank, board an endorsed policy in the platform of a political party | ||
| lumber - an implement used in baseball by the batter | ||
| baseball bat | ||
| bat (baseball) a turn trying to get a hit; "he was at bat when it happened"; "he got four hits in four at-bats" | ||
| baseball equipment equipment used in playing baseball | ||
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| lumber - move heavily or clumsily; "The heavy man lumbered across the room" | ||
| pound | ||
| walk obtain a base on balls | ||
| lumber - cut lumber, as in woods and forests | ||
| log | ||
| fell, strike down, cut down, drop cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow; "strike down a tree"; "Lightning struck down the hikers" | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- lumber (n.)
A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. - lumber (n.)
Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value. - lumber (n.)
Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber. - lumber (b. t.)
To heap together in disorder. - lumber (b. t.)
To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room. - lumber (v. i.)
To move heavily, as if burdened. - lumber (v. i.)
To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble. - lumber (v. i.)
To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.
Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵
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lumber
Logs as they arrive at the mills. Also, timber of any size, sawed or split for use. Also, things stowed without order.
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅
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lumber
Live lumber; soldiers or passengers on board a ship are so called by the sailors.
Wikipedia 
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Lumber or Timber is a term used to describe wood from the time trees are felled, to its end product as a material suitable for industrial use—as structural material for construction or wood pulp for paper production.
In the U.K. and Australia, "timber" is a term also used for sawn wood products (that is, boards), whereas generally in the United States and Canada, the product of timber cut into boards is referred to as lumber. In the United States and Canada sawn wood products of five inches diameter or greater (4½″ nominal size) are sometimes called "timbers".
Lumber is supplied either rough or finished. Rough lumber is the raw material for furniture making. It is available in many species, usually hardwoods.
Dimensional Lumber.
Dimensional lumber is a term used in North America for lumber that is finished/planed and cut to standardized width and depth specified in inches.
Softwoods.
Examples of common sizes are 2×4 (also two-by-four and other variants), 2×6, and 4×4. The length of a board is usually specified separately from the width and depth. It is thus possible to find 2×4s that are four, eight, or twelve feet in length. In the United States the standard lengths of lumber are 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, and 24 feet.
Non-North American sizes.
Outside North America sizes of timber vary slightly. Sizes are, in some cases, based on the imperial measurement and referred to as such; in other cases the sizes are too far removed from the imperial size to be referred to by
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