lumber

  • 31lumber — lumber1 verb move in a slow, heavy, awkward way. Origin ME lomere, perh. symbolic of clumsy movement. lumber2 noun 1》 Brit. disused articles of furniture that inconveniently take up space. 2》 chiefly N. Amer. partly prepared timber. verb 1》 (usu …

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  • 32lumber — I. n. 1. Trash, trumpery, rubbish, refuse. 2. [U. S.] Sawed or split timber. II. v. a. 1. Heap in disorder. 2. Fill with trumpery, choke, crowd, obstruct, encumber. III. v. n …

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  • 33lumber — 1. verb elephants lumbered past Syn: lurch, stumble, trundle, shamble, shuffle, waddle; trudge, clump, stump, plod, tramp, tromp; informal galumph 2. noun a truckload of quality lumber Syn: timber …

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  • 34lumber — Verb. To burden. E.g. What am I, a doctor? Don t lumber me with all your medical problems, go to the medical centre. Informal …

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  • 35lumber — pjautinė mediena statusas T sritis ekologija ir aplinkotyra apibrėžtis Išilgai pjaustant rąstą gauti medienos gabalai, iš kurių daromi ruošiniai (lentos, tašai, tašeliai supjaustomi pagal būsimų konstrukcijų matmenis, paliekant atsargą… …

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  • 36lumber — [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… …

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  • 37Lumber kiln — 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… …

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  • 38Lumber room — 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… …

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  • 39Lumber wagon — 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… …

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  • 40Lumber Bridge — Pueblo de los Estados Unidos Ubicación en …

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