Lumber vs Trail - 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.
(label) To follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).
(label) To drag (something) behind on the ground.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 1
(label) To leave (a trail of).
(label) To show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report etc.) in advance of the full publication.
To be losing, to be behind in a competition.
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, title= (label) To carry (a firearm) with the breech near the ground and the upper part inclined forward, the piece being held by the right hand near the middle.
To flatten (grass, etc.) by walking through it; to tread down.
(label) To take advantage of the ignorance of; to impose upon.
* (1816-1855)
The track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the sky.
A route for travel over land, especially a narrow, unpaved pathway for use by hikers, horseback riders, etc.
A trailer broadcast on television for a forthcoming film or programme.
In transitive terms the difference between lumber and trail
is that lumber is to load down with things, to fill, to encumber while trail is to show a trailer of (a film, TV show etc.); to release or publish a preview of (a report etc.) in advance of the full publication.As nouns the difference between lumber and trail
is that lumber is wood intended as a building material while trail is the track or indication marking the route followed by something that has passed, such as the footprints of animal on land or the contrail of an airplane in the sky.As verbs the difference between lumber and trail
is that lumber is to move clumsily while trail is to follow behind (someone or something); to tail (someone or something).As a proper noun Trail is
a city in British Columbia.lumber
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(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
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Verb
(en verb)- "I saw your brother—I saw your brother," he said, nodding his head, as Archer lagged past him, trailing his spade, and scowling at the old gentleman in spectacles.
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- (Longfellow)
- I presently perceived she was (what is vernacularly termed) trailing Mrs. Dent; that is, playing on her ignorance.