Lumber vs Scurry - What's the difference?

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Lumber is a related term of scurry.

As verbs the difference between lumber and scurry

is that lumber is to move clumsily while scurry is to run away with quick light steps, to scamper.

As a noun lumber

is (uncountable) wood intended as a building material.

lumber

English

(wikipedia 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

Anagrams

* * English terms with unknown etymologies

scurry

English

Verb

(en-verb)

To run away with quick light steps, to scamper.

* 1964 ,

Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.

Derived terms

* scurry away * scurry off