Lumber: Definition and part of speech

Lumber

  1. n. Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber.
  2. n. A pawnbroker’s shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
  3. n. Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.
  4. v. i. To move heavily, as if burdened.
  5. v. i. To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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