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What's The Definition Of Lumber?

\Lum"ber\, n. [Prob. fr. Lombard, the Lombards being the money lenders and pawnbrokers of the Middle Ages. A lumber room was, according to Trench, originally a Lombard room, or room where the Lombard pawnbroker stored his pledges. See {Lombard}.] 1. A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. [Obs.] They put all the little plate they had in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came. --Lady Murray. 2. Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value. 3. Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber. [U.S.] {Lumber kiln}, a room in which timber or lumber is dried by artificial heat. [U.S.] {Lumber room}, a room in which unused furniture or other lumber is kept. [U.S.] {Lumber wagon}, a heavy rough wagon, without springs, used for general farmwork, etc.
\Lum"ber\, b. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lumbered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lumbering}.] 1. To heap together in disorder. `` Stuff lumbered together.'' --Rymer. 2. To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.
\Lum"ber\, v. i. 1. To move heavily, as if burdened. 2. [Cf. dial. Sw. lomra to resound.] To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble. --Cowper. 3. To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market. [U.S.]