LUMBER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lumber mean? 

• LUMBER (noun)
  The noun LUMBER has 2 senses:

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

2. an implement used in baseball by the batter

  Familiarity information: LUMBER used as a noun is rare.

• LUMBER (verb)
  The verb LUMBER has 2 senses:

1. move heavily or clumsily

2. cut lumber, as in woods and forests

  Familiarity information: LUMBER used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LUMBER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

lumber; timber

Hypernyms ("lumber" is a kind of...):

building material (material used for constructing buildings)

Meronyms (substance of "lumber"):

wood (the hard fibrous lignified substance under the bark of trees)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lumber"):

stock (lumber used in the construction of something)

strip (thin piece of wood or metal)

board; plank (a stout length of sawn timber; made in a wide variety of sizes and used for many purposes)

planking (planks collectively; a quantity of planks)

Derivation:

lumber (cut lumber, as in woods and forests)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An implement used in baseball by the batter

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

baseball bat; lumber

Hypernyms ("lumber" is a kind of...):

baseball equipment (equipment used in playing baseball)

bat (a club used for hitting a ball in various games)

Meronyms (parts of "lumber"):

grip; handgrip; handle; hold (the appendage to an object that is designed to be held in order to use or move it)

• LUMBER (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they lumber    ... he / she / it lumbers   
Past simple: lumbered   
Past participle: lumbered   
-ing form: lumbering   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Move heavily or clumsily

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

lumber; pound

Context example:

The heavy man lumbered across the room

Hypernyms (to "lumber" is one way to...):

walk (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s PP

Sentence example:

The children lumber to the playground

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cut lumber, as in woods and forests

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

log; lumber

Hypernyms (to "lumber" is one way to...):

cut down; drop; fell; strike down (cause to fall by or as if by delivering a blow)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

lumber (the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material)

 Context examples 

Now that we’ve everything cleaned up, we’ll have the funeral and get the decks cleared of useless lumber.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“It was black enough before against this young man, but our inquiries make it blacker,” he remarked as the cab lumbered off.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"At the way lumber is now," he said, "four thousand could do it."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be carried by wagon many miles.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

In the night-time, after they had gone to roost, he climbed to the top of a pile of newly hauled lumber.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Then he lumbered away and was lost among the boulders.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The carriages rocked and pitched like boats in a seaway, as they lumbered along, fifty abreast, scrambling and lurching over everything which came in their way.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I'm going out to get some little matters for my girls. Can I do anything for you, young ladies?" asked Mrs. Moffat, lumbering in like an elephant in silk and lace.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I feel like a novice lumbering through a bog in a mist, jumping from one tussock to another in the mere blind effort to move on without knowing where I am going.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The workers looked hungrily at him, and then jogged onwards upon their way in slow, lumbering Saxon style.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)