Lumber

Definition: Lumber

Lumber

Noun

1. The wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material.

2. An implement used in baseball by the batter.

Verb

1. Move heavily or clumsily; "The heavy man lumbered across the room.

2. Cut lumber, as in woods and forests.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "lumber" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Building & Civil Engineering

Dream Interpretation

Food & Agriculture

Literature

Mining

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Lumber

Disorder

Noun: disorder; derangement; irregularity; anomaly; (unconformity); anarchy, anarchism; want of method; untidiness; Adjective: disunion; discord. confusion; confusedness; Adjective: mishmash, mix; disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber; cahotage; farrago; mess, mash, muddle, muss, hash, hodgepodge; hotch-potch, hotch-pot; imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum, medley; mere mixture; fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra, rudis indigestaque moles.

Hindrance

Encumbrance, incumbrance; clog, skid, shoe, spoke; drag, drag chain, drag weight; stay, stop; preventive, prophylactic; load, burden, fardel, onus, millstone round one's neck, impedimenta; dead weight; lumber, pack; nightmare, Ephialtes, incubus, old man of the sea; remora.

Cramp, hamper; clog, clog the wheels; cumber; encumber, incumber; handicap; choke; saddle with, load with; overload, lay; lumber, trammel, tie one's hands, put to inconvenience; incommode, discommode; discompose; hustle, corner, drive into a corner.

Inutility

Litter, rubbish, junk, lumber, odds and ends, cast-off clothes; button top; shoddy; rags, orts, trash, refuse, sweepings, scourings, offscourings, waste, rubble, debris, detritus; stubble, leavings; broken meat; dregs; (dirt); weeds, tares; rubbish heap, dust hole; rudera, deads.

Mart

Tobacco shop, tobacco store, tobacconists, cigar store, hardware store, jewelry shop, bookstore, liquor store, gun shop, rod and reel shop, furniture store, drugstore, chemist's, florist, flower shop, shoe store, stationer, stationer's, electronics shop, telephone store, music store, record shop, fur store, sporting goods store, video store, video rental store; lumber store, lumber yard, home improvements store, home improvement center; gas station, auto repair shop, auto dealer, used car dealer.

Receptacle

Attic, loft, garret, clerestory; cellar, vault, hold, cockpit; cubbyhole; cook house; entre-sol; mezzanine floor; ground floor, rez-de-chaussee; basement, kitchen, pantry, bawarchi-khana, scullery, offices; storeroom; (depository); lumber room; dairy, laundry.

Slowness

Verb: move slowly; adVerb: creep, crawl, lag, slug, drawl, linger, loiter, saunter; plod, trudge, stump along, lumber; trail, drag; dawdle; (be inactive); grovel, worm one's way, steal along; job on, rub on, bundle on; toddle, waddle, wabble, slug, traipse, slouch, shuffle, halt, hobble, limp, caludicate, shamble; flag, falter, trotter, stagger; mince, step short; march in slow time, march in funeral procession; take one's time; hang fire; (be late).

Store

Store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack; lumber; relay; (provision).

Crosswords: Lumber

Now that you've got your lumber mill and Frank's money, you won't come to me as you did to the jail, so I see I shall have to marry you. (Gone with the Wind; writing credit: Margaret Mitchell; Sidney Howard)

Strictly From Lumber (1963)

Lumber Jerks (1955)

The Lumber Champ (1933)

Broncho Billy and the Lumber King (1915)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• U.S. Plastic Lumber Corp.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Tenryu Lumber Co., Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Wolohan Lumber Co.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2001 Report on Lumber, Building Materials, Paint, Glass & Wallpaper Stores: World Market Segmentation by City (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Basic Lumber Engineering for Builders (reference)

• Just How Much Scrap Lumber Does a Man Need? (reference)

• Low Cost Green Lumber Construction (reference)

• Lumber Camp Library (reference)

• Lumber Manufacturing: The Design and Operation of Sawmills and Planer Mills (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Canadian Softwood Lumber Exports (reference)

• Directory Of Ontario Lumber And Building Materials Retailers (reference)

• Inland Lumber Price Index (reference)

• Japan Lumber Journal (reference)

• Japan Lumber Reports (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Consumer Goods

• DeWalt DW3174 Series 20 7-1/4" 20T Carbide Pressure Treated/Wet Lumber Circular Saw Blade (reference)

• Wizard Detectors 13704 Lumber Wizard Metal Detector (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Lumber Mill at Logtown. Credit: NASA.

Carrying lumber up rift in cliffs at east end of Amlia Island Note boat at beach - shore party shows as barely visible specks at top of photo Party off of PIONEER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

"The Weyerhaeuser Lumber Mill, on the Waterfront at Everett". In: "Puget Sound and Western Washington Cities-Towns Scenery", by Robert A. Reid, Robert A. Reid Publisher, Seattle, 1912. P. 92. Credit: America's Coastlines.

"The Docks of a Great Lumber Mill at Cosmopolis", Grays Harbor. In: "Puget Sound and Western Washington Cities-Towns Scenery", by Robert A. Reid, Robert A. Reid Publisher, Seattle, 1912. P. 156. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Former Seaboard Lumber site, was renamed Herring House following restoration. This is the site design layout. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Wood drying at a lumber mill. Credit: Jim Peterson.

Unloading a log truck at the lumber mill. Credit: Jim Peterson.

Hauling Lumber for Karluk Weir. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library.

Sections, west elevation, entry details, window details. Measured drawing delineated by W.C. Yanike, March 1934. (Reproduction Number: HABS NE-35-10, sheet 2 of 2; negative number LC-USZA3-34) Many early white settlers in the Western plains built sod-block houses such as this one because they could not afford lumber. Some sod houses had dirt floors, sod walls that sprouted grass in the summer, and roofs of tree branches covered with more sod. Others had wooden roofs and floors and plaster walls. All needed frequent repairs, and few lasted longer than fifty years. Gustav Rohrich, an Austrian-born farmer, built this two-room house with an attached cellar in 1883 for his young family. He was still living in the house when these drawings were made in 1934. At that time, he was eighty-five years old and his well-maintained house was the last "soddy" standing in the township. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bow-on view of vessel in dry dock in 1985, as seen from vessel centerline. Photograph by Jet Lowe, May/October 1985. (Reproduction Number: HAER, WASH,17-SEAT,10-16) Historic ships are among the most difficult objects to preserve and few vessels survive long enough to be considered historic. Those that do require expensive maintenance to be operational. The 1897 schooner Wawona was put into a floating dry dock in 1985 to allow necessary periodic repairs to the wooden hull. While the hull was accessible, HAER measured and mapped the shape of the hull in a series of topographic drawings, a process called "lines-lifting." This lumber schooner was the first project of HAER's ongoing maritime program. (See HABS/HAER, National Park Service for more history.). Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Mae watched them get into the great truck, watched it lumber off in low gear, and heard the shift up the whining gears to cruising ratio

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Business

For the same reason, the U.S. will be a prospective market for RFE lumber exporters. (references)

Unlike Japan and South Korea, the Chinese market will primarily consume raw round wood and rough lumber. (references)

Asian economies, rebounding from their recent crisis, represent an evolving market for RFE timber and lumber. (references)

Civil Liberties

Burma

For example, in July 2000, army troops from the 246th Infantry Division reportedly forced 54 men to dismantle several temples and monasteries in the forced relocation areas of Kun-Hing township; on August 10, 2000, the same troops again conscripted 87 workers from the same town and forced them to build a shelter for the lumber and tin sheets taken from the dismantled monasteries. (references)

Economic History

Eq. Guinea

Taxes are also levied on lumber products. (references)

Trinidad and Tobago

Natural resources: Oil and natural gas, lumber, fish. (references)

Political Economy

CANADA

U.S. lumber producers have argued for years that Canadian provinces' forest management practices (e.g., log export restrictions and low "stumpage" fees for harvesting timber on Crown land) constitute subsidies to Canadian lumber exports. (references)

CANADA

The United States and Canada signed a five-year Softwood Lumber Agreement (SLA) in the spring of 1996. Upon the expiry of the agreement at the end of March 2001, several U.S. lumber firms petitioned the U.S. Department of Commerce Import Administration to initiate countervailing duty (CVD) and antidumpting (AD) investigations. (references)

Trade

Laos

THE GOL USES QUOTAS TO CONTROL EXPORTS OF TIMBER AND LUMBER. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "lumber": box lumber ♦ Dimension lumber ♦ Dimensional lumber ♦ lumber along ♦ Lumber Bridge ♦ lumber Cartel ♦ Lumber City ♦ lumber dealer ♦ lumber jack ♦ Lumber kiln ♦ lumber mill ♦ lumber room ♦ lumber smb. with smth. ♦ Lumber State ♦ lumber up ♦ Lumber wagon ♦ lumber yard. Additional references.

Beginning with "lumber": lumber-camp, lumber-house, lumber-jacket, lumber-mill, lumber-room, lumber-shirts, lumber-town.

Albanian

lëndë druri (timber, timbering, wood), zë vendin me rrangulla, rrangulla (hoard), orendi të vjetra, bëj lëndë druri. (various references)

Arabic 

‏كوم (accumulate, amass, bank, heap, heap up, hill up, jam, pile, pile up, rake, scrape, stack, stick, tamp, tumble), ‏ملأ بإشياء مبعثرة, ‏تحرك بتثاقل, ‏سقط المتاع (junk, offal, raffle, rubbish, stuff, tat, trash, write off), ‏خشب منشور, ‏خشب مقطوع, ‏خشب (lignify, timber, wood). (various references)

Blackfoot

apaksísttohksiksis. (various references)

Bulgarian 

струпвам (amass, gather, load, mass, rake together, rake up), стари мебели, сека дървен материал, режа дървен материал, трополя (patter, rattle, rumble), вехтории (junk, odd-come-shorts, rummage), обременявам (burden, cumber, encumber, hamper, load, overburden, saddle, weigh down, weight, weight down), ненужни вещи, натъпквам (bulge, bung, compress, cram, crush, fill in, imbed, impact, jam, pack, pack in, pump in, ram, stuff, tamp), натрупвам (accumulate, agglomerate, amass, bank, congest, cumulate, deck, garner, heap, huddle, pile, pyramid, shovel up, stack, store), натрапвам (foist, intrude, obtrude, thrust, thrust in, thrust on, tout), излишна тлъстина, дървен материал (wood), движа се тромаво (lump, slummock), движа се тежко (lump, plod). (various references)

Chinese 

木料 (timber), 木材 (timber). (various references)

Czech

rachotit (rattle, rumble), harampádí (odds and ends). (various references)

Danish

toemmer konstruktioner (building timber, construction timber, constructional timber, structural timber), tømmer (industrial roundwood, industrial timber, logs, timber, workable timber), savvaerkstoemmer, opskaaret trae, konstruktionstrae (building timber, construction timber, constructional timber, structural timber), kaevle, industritræ (industrial roundwood, industrial timber, timber, workable timber), industritømmer (industrial roundwood, industrial timber, timber, workable timber), bygningstræ (building timber, construction timber, constructional timber, structural timber), bygningstoemmer (building timber, construction timber, constructional timber, structural timber), bygningstømmer (industrial roundwood, industrial timber, timber, workable timber). (various references)

Dutch

zaaghout, werkhout (industrial roundwood, industrial timber, timber, workable timber), timmerhout (building timber, construction timber, constructional timber, sawn timber, structural timber), industriehout (industrial roundwood, industrial timber, timber, workable timber), constructiehout (building timber, construction timber, constructional timber, structural timber), bouwhout (building timber, construction timber, constructional timber, structural timber), bewerkt constructiehout, bestekhout. (various references)

Farsi 

چوب بری کردن , تیربریده , تخته (Board, Brede, Gob, Ledger, Plank, Sheet, Tablet), سنگین حرکت کردن (Lug), سلانه سلانه راه رفتن (Canter), الوارراقطع کردن , الوار (Timber). (various references)

Finnish

sahatavara (sawn goods, sawn timber). (various references)

French

bois de charpente. (various references)

German

holz (ninepin, skittle, timber, wood), bauholz (building timber, timber). (various references)

Greek 

ξυλεία για σκαλωσιές (building timber, construction timber, constructional timber, structural timber), δομήσιμη ξυλεία (building timber, construction timber, constructional timber, structural timber), οικοδομική ξυλεία (building timber, construction timber, constructional timber, structural timber), αργοκινούμαι, παληοπράγματα (junk), πριστή ξυλεία (sawn timber), ξυλεία (timber), δομήσιμος ξυλεία (building timber, construction timber, constructional timber, structural timber), ξυλεία για ικριώματα (building timber, construction timber, constructional timber, structural timber), κατασκευαστική ξυλεία (industrial roundwood, industrial timber, timber, workable timber), ξυλεία για κατασκευές (building timber, construction timber, constructional timber, structural timber), ξυλεία κατασκευών (industrial roundwood, industrial timber, timber, workable timber), ξύλο οικοδομών (building timber, construction timber, constructional timber, structural timber), ξύλο σκαλωσιάς (building timber, construction timber, constructional timber, structural timber), ξύλο κουφωμάτων (building timber, construction timber, constructional timber, structural timber), ξύλο κατασκευών (building timber, construction timber, constructional timber, structural timber), σωριάζω (bundle, clutter up, fell), ξυλεία πριστή. (various references)

Hebrew 

למלא באשפ�", ל�'בב (heap, pile), ל� וע בכב�"ות, עץ (log, pole, timber, tree, wood), �'רוטא (junk, scrap, scrap iron, wreck, write off), בלאים (rags, shreds, tatters). (various references)

Hungarian

ócska bútor (duds), épületfa (building timber, construction lumber, construction timber, timber). (various references)

Indonesian

panglong (lumber mill), blandongan (lumber jacking, timber). (various references)

Italian

legname de costruzione, legname (timber, wood), legname da carpenteria (building timber, construction timber, constructional timber, structural timber), legname da costruzione (timber), legname da lavoro (industrial roundwood, industrial timber, timber, workable timber), legname da opera (industrial roundwood, industrial timber, timber, workable timber), legname da struttura (building timber, construction timber, constructional timber, structural timber), legname di costruzione (building timber, construction timber, constructional timber, structural timber), legname grezzo (raw wood, wood in the rough), legname industriale (industrial roundwood, industrial timber, timber, workable timber), legname segato, legno da lavoro (industrial roundwood, industrial timber, timber, workable timber), legno da opera (industrial roundwood, industrial timber, timber, workable timber), legname da opera e industriale (industrial roundwood, industrial timber, timber, workable timber), segati, cianfrusaglie (frippery, sundries). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

木材 (timber, wood), 材木　 (timber), 材木 (timber). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ざいもく (timber), もくざい (timber, wood). (various references)

Korean 

재목. (various references)

Manx

mollid (coarseness, hairs, jumble, luggage, roughness, rubbish, rummage), fuygh lhieggit, cur myr errey er, boanlagh (litter, rubbish). (various references)

Norwegian

tømmer, skrap (junk). (various references)

Papago

huk. (various references)

Pig Latin

umberlay.(various references)

Portuguese

trastes (frippery), serrar madeira, madeira serrada (sawn wood), madeira desalinhada, madeira de construção/estrutura (building timber, construction timber, constructional timber, structural timber), madeira de construção (building timber, construction timber, constructional timber, industrial roundwood, industrial timber, structural timber, timber, workable timber), madeira cortada, gordura supérflua, estorvar (abash, embarrass, entangle, inconvenience, interrupt, obstruct, shackle), cortar (bite, chaff, chip, chop, clip, crop, curtail, cut, cut down, cut off, delete, detruncate, fell, gash, gouge, hack, hackle, hand back, hew, hew down, incise, indent, interrupt, intersect, let by, log, lop, mow, poll, pollard, sever, shave, shear, slice, slit, strike off, strike out, whittle), cacarecos, atravancar (block, chock, clutter, encumber, obstruct), arrastar-se pesadamente, amontoar coisas velhas. (various references)

Romanian

lemn de construcţie, vechituri (junk, odds and ends, pedlary, rubbish, trash), se mişca stângaci, se mişca greoi, mobilã veche, hurui (jar, throb, whir), hodorogi (deteriorate, rattle, rumble), cherestea (build, crust, sawn wood, timber), arunca de-a valma, arunca claie peste grãmadã, îngrãmãdi (accumulate, acerbate, aggregate, assemble, clump, cram, crowd, drift, garner, gather, heap, huddle, jam, lump, pack, pile, pile up, put in a heap, squeeze, throng). (various references)

Russian 

лесоматериал (timber, timbering). (various references)

Scottish

trealaich (baggage, trash), acaran. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zakrčiti (block, congest, crowd, jam, make jam), starudija (junk, old junk, rags), natrpati (bulk, cram, cram in, heap up, jam, squeeze, stuff), izlišan teret, drvena građa (timbering), drva (firewood, logs, wood). (various references)

Spanish

madera industrial (industrial roundwood, industrial timber, timber, workable timber), aserrar, avanzar (advance, come forward, come on, develop, encroach, forward, go forward, go off, go on, lurch along, move, move along, move in, proceed, push forward, push on, thrust forward, toil, track, trundle on), cortar (ax, axe, bar, behead, block off, Bob, break, break in, chop, clip, comminute, crop, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut in, cut off, cut out, cut up, decapitate, detruncate, disbranch, excise, exscind, fell, hack, incise, intersect, joint, lop, lop away, lop off, mow, Nick, nip, open, pare, pick, pluck, prune, sever, shear, shear off, shear through, shut off, slice, slit, snick, strike off, tear off, trim away, trim off, turn off, turn out, Whittle), explotar los bosques, hacer (accomplish, achieve, act, administer, advance, ask, be, bestow, bind, bring, bring in, build, carry out, cause, come, commit, compose, compound, create, cut, cut out, do, draw, drive, drop, effect, emit, enter into, enter up, fabricate, force, form, generate, get, get out, give, go at, hole, keep, knock out, lay, lean, level, light, live, live through, lure on, make, make into, make up, making, observe, offer, pack, pass, pay, perform, perpetrate, place, poke, prosecute, pull, punch, put, put forward, put out, put up, render, set off, tackle, take, take on, think up, throw, throw in, throw out, throw up, tie, to do, to make, to make into, travel, turn out, wet, work, work out), juntar a (accrete, band, muster, seam, splice), madera de construcción (building timber, construction timber, constructional timber, industrial roundwood, industrial timber, structural timber, timber, workable timber), amontonar (amass, bank, bulk, heap, heap up, hoard, hoard up, huddle, lump together, pile, pile up, Rick, stack, stack up), madera elaborada (cleft wood, converted wood, split wood), trastos viejos (trash), madera industrial y de construcción (industrial roundwood, industrial timber, timber, workable timber), madera para estructuras (building timber, construction timber, constructional timber, structural timber), maderas, maderos, moverse pesadamente y ruidosamente, obstrucción (bar, barrier, block, blockage, clog, dam, fence, goaf, jam, obstruction, stoppage), obstruir (bar, barricade, beset, block, block up, choke, clog, foul, hinder, impede, interfere, jam, obstruct, occlude, shut up, tie up), trastería (junk), madera de obra. (various references)

Swedish

timmer (timber), skräp (debris, dross, duffer, garbage, junk, kitsch, litter, pulp, rubbish, shoddy, trash, waste), lufsa (shamble). (various references)

Thai

เคลื่อนที่อย่างอุ้ยอ้าย, เศษของที่ไม่มีประโยชน์, กองไว้ระเกะระกะ. (various references)

Turkish

lüzumsuz eşya ile doldurmak, lüzumsuz eşya, kereste kesmek, kereste (stuff, timber, wood), hantal hantal yürümek (lumber along, lump along), gereksiz eşya (white elephant), ağaç kesmek (cut down, fell trees). (various references)

Ukrainian

старі меблі, мотлох (duds, odd-come-short, raff, rag, rubbish, shoddy, shucks, wrack), засмічувати (choke, clog, foul, silt), захаращувати (choke, clutter, encumber, obstruct, overcharge), лісоматеріал (timber, wood), пиляти дерева. (various references)

Vietnamese 

nh� máy cưa (lumber-mill), bu�"ng chứa những đ�" tập t� ng (lumber-room), bu�"ng chứa những đ�" kềnh c� ng (lumber-room). (various references)

Welsh

llanastr (confusion, mess). (various references)

materia, materiem. (various references)

healwudu. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "lumber": lumbered, lumberer, lumberers, lumbering, lumberjack, lumberjacks, lumberman, lumbermen, lumbers, lumberyard, lumberyards. (additional references)

Words ending with "lumber": clumber, plumber, slumber. (additional references)

Words containing "lumber": clumbers, plumberies, plumbers, plumbery, slumbered, slumberer, slumberers, slumbering, slumberous, slumbers, slumbery. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Lumber" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Elombe, humber, lambe, lamber, Lemmer, limbery, limbey, Llanaber, Lomba, lombar, Lombe, Lomberg, luber, Lubner, lubr, Ludmer, Luemba, Luembe, lumb, Lumba, lumbard, Lumbe, Lumbi, Lumbo, lumbor, Lumby, lumer, lumme, Lumsbury, lunbar, Luneberg. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: rumble.

-1 letter: bluer, blume, brume, lemur, ruble, umbel, umber.

-2 letters: berm, blue, blur, burl, lube, lure, merl, mule, mure, rube, rule.

-3 letters: bel, bum, bur, elm, emu, leu, lum, mel, reb, rem, rub, rue, rum, urb.

-4 letters: be, el, em, er, me, mu, re, um.

+1 letter: bumbler, clumber, crumble, drumble, fumbler, grumble, humbler, jumbler, lumbers, mumbler, plumber, replumb, rumbled, rumbler, rumbles, slumber, tumbler, tumbrel.

+2 letters: bumblers, clumbers, crumbled, crumbles, drumbled, drumbles, fumblers, grumbled, grumbler, grumbles, humblers, jumblers, lumbered, lumberer, mulberry, mumblers, plumbers, plumbery, replumbs, rumblers, slumbers, slumbery, stumbler, sublimer, tumblers, tumbrels, umbellar, umbrella, unlimber.

+3 letters: beglamour, berkelium, beryllium, crumblier, grumblers, lumberers, lumbering, lumberman, lumbermen, numerable, penumbral, replumbed, slumbered, slumberer, stumblers, subdermal, sublimers, umbrellas, unlimbers.