What is lumber

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Wood that has been cut down to make boards

A processed tree...

lum·ber
1
–noun
1.
timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
2.
miscellaneous useless articles that are stored away.
–verb (used without object)
3.
to cut timber and prepare it for market.
4.
to become useless or to be stored away as useless.
–verb (used with object)
5.
to convert (a specified amount, area, etc.) into lumber: We lumbered more than a million acres last year.
6.
to heap together in disorder.
7.
to fill up or obstruct with miscellaneous useless articles; encumber.


lum·ber
2  
–verb (used without object)
1.
to move clumsily or heavily, esp. from great or ponderous bulk: overloaded wagons lumbering down the dirt road.
2.
to make a rumbling noise.
Origin:
1300–50; ME lomeren; cf. dial. Sw lomra to resound, loma to walk heavily

—Related forms
lum·ber·ly, adjective

—Synonyms
1. trudge, barge, plod.

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