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What (who) is Lumber - definition

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

lumber

I

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

II

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

III

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

Lumber

(·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.

lumber

lumber¹

¦ verb move in a slow, heavy, awkward way.

Origin

ME lomere, perh. symbolic of clumsy movement.

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lumber²

¦ noun

1. Brit. disused articles of furniture that inconveniently take up space.

2. chiefly N. Amer. partly prepared timber.

¦ verb

1. (usu. be lumbered with) Brit. informal burden with an unwanted responsibility.

2. [usu. as noun lumbering] chiefly N. Amer. cut and prepare forest timber for transport and sale.

Origin

C16: perh. from lumber¹; later assoc. with obs. lumber 'pawnbroker's shop'.

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lumber³ Scottish

informal

¦ verb casually strike up a relationship with (a prospective sexual partner).

¦ noun a prospective sexual partner.

Origin

1960s: of unknown origin.

Wikipedia

Lumber

Lumber is wood that has been processed into uniform and useful sizes (dimensional lumber), including beams and planks or boards. Lumber is mainly used for construction framing, as well as finishing (floors, wall panels, window frames). Lumber has many uses beyond home building. Lumber is sometimes referred to as timber as an archaic term and still in England, while in most parts of the world (including the United States and Canada) the term timber refers specifically to unprocessed wood fiber, such as cut logs or standing trees that have yet to be cut.

Lumber may be supplied either rough-sawn, or surfaced on one or more of its faces. Beside pulpwood, rough lumber is the raw material for furniture-making, and manufacture of other items requiring cutting and shaping. It is available in many species, including hardwoods and softwoods, such as white pine and red pine, because of their low cost.

Finished lumber is supplied in standard sizes, mostly for the construction industry – primarily softwood, from coniferous species, including pine, fir and spruce (collectively spruce-pine-fir), cedar, and hemlock, but also some hardwood, for high-grade flooring. It is more commonly made from softwood than hardwoods, and 80% of lumber comes from softwood.

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Examples of use of Lumber

1. Reaction from Canadian lumber producers was mixed.

2. Washington and the U.S. lumber industry claim Canada‘s provinces unfairly subsidize their lumber industry by charging below market rates to log in the massive public forests.

3. The case focuses on the lumber industry in the Pacific Northwest and pits a defunct company, Ross–Simmons Hardwood Lumber Co., against Weyerhaeuser and the Bush administration.

4. Insurgents burned down his little lumber business in Sabray.

5. The Bush administration imposed punitive tariffs on Canadian construction lumber in 2002 after accusing Ottawa of unfairly subsidizing its lumber industry.