Amble vs Lumber - What's the difference?
amble | lumber |
An unhurried leisurely walk or stroll.
An easy gait, especially that of a horse (as above).
To stroll or walk slowly and leisurely.
Of a horse: to move along by using both legs on one side, and then the other.
(uncountable) Wood intended as a building material.
* 1782, H. de Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer
Useless things that are stored away
* 1711, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
* Lady Murray
to move clumsily
* 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary
to load down with things, to fill, to encumber
* 1822, Sir Walter Scott, Peveril of the Peak
To heap together in disorder.
* Rymer
To fill or encumber with lumber.
As verbs the difference between amble and lumber
is that amble is while lumber is to move clumsily.As a noun lumber is
(uncountable) wood intended as a building material.amble
English
Noun
(en noun)Verb
(ambl)Synonyms
* (walk slowly and leisurely) saunterAnagrams
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lumber
English
(wikipedia lumber)Noun
(-)- Here they live by fishing on the most plentiful coasts in the world; there they fell trees, by the sides of large rivers, for masts and lumber ;
- The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, / With loads of learned lumber in his head,
- They put all the little plate they had in the lumber , which is pawning it, till the ships came.
Synonyms
* timber * woodVerb
(en verb)- ...he was only apprized of the arrival of the Monkbarns division by the gee-hupping of the postilion, as the post-chaise lumbered up behind him.
- The mean utensils, pewter measures, empty cans and casks, with which this room was lumbered , proclaimed it that of the host, who slept surrounded by his professional implements of hospitality and stock-in-trade.
- stuff lumbered together
- to lumber up a room