What is the meaning of LUMBER. Phrases containing LUMBER
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, bindle stiff Chronic wanderers; itinerant misfits, criminals, migratory harvest workers, and lumber jacks. Called so because they carried a “bindle.†George and Lenny in Of Mice and Men are bindle stiffs.
A toothpick
Lumber is British slang for trouble, a burden. Lumber is British slang for a fight, a struggle. Lumber is American slang for a toothpick.
 (1) Unused, or second-hand furniture. (2) To pawn. (3) To go into seclusion. (4) To be in lumber is to be in gaol.
Having more than seven inches of cock.
A term applied by lumbermen, dealers in timber, and carpenters, to boards which are inclined to split from defects in the log from which they have been sawed.
pliable lumber, willowy, graceful
Lumber droger, cotton droger, etc. A vessel built solely for burden, for transporting cotton, lumber, and other heavy articles.
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}
In lumber is British slang for in trouble.
Someone who is large, either tall, fat, or both. Someone very clumsy, often falling over, or breaking things. Also referred to as a "lumberer". Used as "Whoa, check out that great loafer!"
Lumberjack is London Cockney rhyming slang for the back.
Extremely tough hardwood lumber
A temporary rig built from lumber to strengthen bulkheads, doors and/or hatches when they have been weakened by damage.
Lumbered is British slang for burdened with.
A toothpick
Bindle punk, Chronic wanderers; itinerant misfits, criminals, migratory harvest workers, and lumber jacks. Called so because they carried a “bindle.†George and Lenny in Of Mice and Men are bindle stiffs.
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n.
A mill for sawing, especially one for sawing timber or lumber.
v. i.
To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.
n.
The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber.
b. t.
To heap together in disorder.
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n.
Of or pertaining to the loins and sacrum; as, the lumbosacral nerve, a branch of one of the lumber nerves which passes over the sacrum.
v. i.
To move heavily, as if burdened.
v. i.
To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.
p. pr. & vb. n.
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n.
A tax on the amount of timber cut, regulated by the price of lumber.
imp. & p. p.
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An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient place of delivery.
n.
One who is engaged in lumbering as a business or employment.
n.
A boat for conveying provisions, tools, etc.; -- so called by Maine lumbermen.
v. i.
To engage in the occupation of driving a team of horses, cattle, or the like, as in conveying or hauling lumber, goods, etc.; to be a teamster.
b. t.
To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.
n.
A place of shelter made of the boughs of trees, -- used by lumbermen, etc.
n.
One employed in lumbering, cutting, and getting logs from the forest for lumber; a lumberman.
v. t.
To convey or haul with a team; as, to team lumber.
n.
That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; -- usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. Lumber, 3.
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