noun, verb
noun [U]
1 (especially AmE) = TIMBER:
a lumber company / mill
2 (BrE) pieces of furniture, and other large objects that you do not use any more:
a lumber room (= for storing lumber in)
Part of speech: verb
1 [V+adv./prep.] to move in a slow, heavy and awkward way:
A family of elephants lumbered by. * The huge convoy of trucks lumbered out of the city.
2 [VN] [usuallypassive] ~ sb (with sb/sth) (informal) to give sb a responsibility, etc., that they do not want and that they cannot get rid of:
When our parents went out, my sister got lumbered with me for the evening. * She might say 'Yes'. Then you'd be lumbered.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for lumber is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is lumber a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, lumber is tagged as verb.
Does lumber appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — lumber appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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