lumber Noun
( -)
(uncountable) Wood intended as a building material.
* 1782, H. de Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer
- 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 ;
Useless things that are stored away
* 1711, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism
- The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, / With loads of learned lumber in his head,
A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
* Lady Murray
- They put all the little plate they had in the lumber , which is pawning it, till the ships came.
Synonyms
* timber
* wood
Verb
( en verb)
to move clumsily
* 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary
- ...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.
to load down with things, to fill, to encumber
* 1822, Sir Walter Scott, Peveril of the Peak
- 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.
To heap together in disorder.
* Rymer
- stuff lumbered together
To fill or encumber with lumber.
- to lumber up a room
Related terms
* lumbering
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loin English
Noun
( en noun)
The part of the body (of humans and quadrupeds) at each side of the backbone, between the ribs and hips
Any of several cuts of meat taken from this part of an animal
Usage notes
The plural loins is used for a wider body region, or specifically as a euphemism for the pubic region
Derived terms
* fruit of one's loins
* gird up one's loins
* loincloth
* loinskin
* short loin
* sirloin
* slack loin
* tenderloin steak
* tenderloin
* top loin
Related terms
* lumbago
* lumbar
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