What (who) is lumber with - definition

ROOM TO STORE CURRENTLY UN-NEEDED FURNITURE

Lumber rooms; Lumber-room; Lumber-rooms

lumber

WOOD THAT HAS BEEN PROCESSED INTO BEAMS AND PLANKS

Dimensional lumber; Dimensional wood; Dimension wood; Dimension lumber; Timbered; Felled tree; Timber tree; Timber; Dimensioned lumber; Dimensioned timber; Rough lumber; Dimensional timber; Timbers; Dimber; 2x4 wood; 2x4 board; Lumber grade; 2×4 wood; 2×4 board; Structural wood

n. (esp. AE) green; seasoned lumber (CE has timber)

v. (P; intr.) the bear lumbered through the forest

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v. (colloq.) (BE) (D; tr.) ('to burden') to lumber with (I've been lumbered with all their problems)

Lumber

WOOD THAT HAS BEEN PROCESSED INTO BEAMS AND PLANKS

(·b.t.) To heap together in disorder.

II. Lumber ·vi To move heavily, as if burdened.

III. Lumber (·b.t.) To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.

IV. Lumber ·vi To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.

V. Lumber ·vi To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to Rumble.

VI. Lumber ·noun Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.

VII. Lumber ·noun A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.

VIII. Lumber ·noun Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, ·etc.; ·esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber.

Timber

WOOD THAT HAS BEEN PROCESSED INTO BEAMS AND PLANKS

·vi To make a nest.

II. Timber ·vi To light on a tree.

III. Timber ·noun The crest on a coat of arms.

IV. Timber ·noun Woods or forest; wooden land.

V. Timber ·vt To surmount as a timber does.

VI. Timber ·noun Fig.: Material for any structure.

VII. Timber ·noun The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.

VIII. Timber ·vt To furnish with timber;

- chiefly used in the past participle.

IX. Timber ·noun A rib, or a curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel and bending upward in a vertical direction. One timber is composed of several pieces united.

X. Timber ·noun A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, ·etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty;

- called also timmer.

XI. Timber ·noun 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.

XII. Timber ·noun A single piece or squared stick of wood intended for building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding.

Wikipedia

Lumber room

In British usage, a lumber room is a room in a house used primarily for storing unused furniture. British stately homes often had more furniture than could be used at one time, and storing the furniture for future use was more common than selling or discarding it.

The first reference to the phrase "lumber room" in the Oxford English Dictionary is the 1740 novel Pamela. Subsequent references can be found in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle's 1891 Sherlock Holmes short story "The Five Orange Pips", and The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien. A lumber room is described in detail in Saki's short story "The Lumber Room":

Often and often Nicholas had pictured to himself what the lumber-room might be like, that region that was so carefully sealed from youthful eyes and concerning which no questions were ever answered. It came up to his expectations. In the first place it was large and dimly lit, one high window opening on to the forbidden garden being its only source of illumination. In the second place it was a storehouse of unimagined treasures.

The OED mentions in the verb "lumbering" that it first meant to obstruct with pieces of wood to make things from, and then shifted to general obstruction, hence furniture fit the later meaning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lumber room

Examples of use of lumber with

1. Charles Roberts had carried boxes of tools, hardware and lumber with him, Miller said, and he barricaded the front door with a piece of wood, bolted it and piled desks in front of it.

2. People with wastas get into university, whereas were left in a lumber." With tears in her eyes, Iman Najrani, a high school graduate, told Al–Madinah, "I went with my friends to university.