lumber
21lumber — 1. noun /ˈlʌm.bə,ˈlʌm.bɚ/ a) Wood intended as a building material. 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; b) Useless things that are stored… …
22lumber — I Australian Slang 1. foist off on or leave with, as with something or someone unwelcome or unpleasant: to lumber with the bill ; 2. place under arrest; 3. (of a prostitute) take a client to a place for sexual services; 4. take a person to one s… …
23lumber — I lum•ber [[t]ˈlʌm bər[/t]] n. 1) bui timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc 2) miscellaneous useless articles that are stored away 3) bui to cut timber and prepare it for market 4) to convert (a specified amount, area, etc.) into lumber… …
24lumber — Papa, papa lā au, laupapa. ♦ Rough lumber, papa huluhulu. ♦ Planed lumber, papa hole …
25Lumber — This most interesting surname may derive from two possible sources. Firstly, it may be of Anglo Saxon origin, and a locational name from Great and Little Limber, in Lincolnshire, which was recorded as Lindbeorhge , circa 1067 in the Anglo Saxon… …
26lumber — noun (esp. AmE) ⇨ See also ↑timber ADJECTIVE ▪ softwood ▪ pressure treated, treated ▪ scrap LUMBER + NOUN ▪ mill …
27Lumber — 1. foist off on or leave with, as with something or someone unwelcome or unpleasant: to lumber with the bill ; 2. place under arrest; 3. (of a prostitute) take a client to a place for sexual services; 4. take a person to one s house for sex …
28lumber — lum|ber1 [ lʌmbər ] noun uncount AMERICAN rough pieces of wood, or trees cut down for wood lumber lum|ber 2 [ lʌmbər ] verb 1. ) intransitive to walk slowly because of being large and heavy 2. ) transitive MAINLY BRITISH to give someone a job or… …
29lumber — [14] Swedish has a dialectal verb loma ‘move heavily’, which is the only clue we have to the antecedents of the otherwise mysterious English verb lumber. The noun, too, which first appears in the 16th century, is difficult to account for. In the… …
30lumber — obsolete British to copulate Probably rhyming slang on hump from lumber and lump: Zoe lumbers for a fiver. (Kersh, 1936) …
