Lumbered vs Cumbered - What's the difference?
lumbered | cumbered |
(lumber)
(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.
(cumber)
Hampered; encumbered.
* 1910 , (Saki), ‘Cross Currents’, Reginald in Russia :
As verbs the difference between lumbered and cumbered
is that lumbered is (lumber) while cumbered is (cumber).As an adjective cumbered is
hampered; encumbered.lumbered
English
Verb
(head)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 etymologiescumbered
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Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- Vanessa Pennington had a husband who was poor, with few extenuating circumstances, and an admirer who, though comfortably rich, was cumbered with a sense of honour.