Lumber vs Hump - What's the difference?
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(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.
A mound of earth.
A rounded mass, especially a fleshy mass such as on a camel.
A speed hump.
(rft-sense) A deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine.
(slang) An act of sexual intercourse.
(British, slang) A bad mood.
(slang) A painfully boorish person.
To bend something into a hump.
(slang) To carry something, especially with some exertion.
(slang) To carry, especially with some exertion.
(intransitive) To dry-hump.
(slang) To have sex with.
(slang) To have sex.
Lumber is a related term of hump.
As a noun lumber
is (uncountable) wood intended as a building material.As a verb lumber
is to move clumsily.As a proper noun hump is
the himalayas, as the challenge for the supply route between india and china.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
Anagrams
* * English terms with unknown etymologieshump
English
Noun
(wikipedia hump) (en noun)- get the hump''', have the '''hump''', take the '''hump .
- That guy is such a hump !