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    Lumber , 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.]
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      They put all the little plate they had in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came.
      Lady Murray.

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    2. Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.
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    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.]
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      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. -- dimensional lumber, lumber, usually of pine, which is sold as beams or planks having a specified nominal cross-section, usually in inches, such a two-by-four, two-by-six, four-by-four, etc.

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    Lumber, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lumbered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Lumbering.]
    1. To heap together in disorder. “ Stuff lumbered together.”
      Rymer.

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    2. To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.
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    Lumber, v. i.
    1. To move heavily, as if burdened.
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    2. [Cf. dial. Sw. lomra to resound.] To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.
      Cowper.

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    3. To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market. [U.S.]
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