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Noun: lumber  lúm-bu(r)
  1. The wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
    "They ordered lumber to frame the new house";
    - timber
     
  2. An implement used in baseball by the batter
    "He swung the lumber and hit a home run";
    - baseball bat
Verb: lumber  lúm-bu(r)
  1. Move heavily or clumsily
    "The heavy man lumbered across the room";
    - pound
     
  2. Cut lumber, as in woods and forests
    "The company lumbered the old-growth forest";
    - log
     
  3. [Brit, informal] Impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
    "He lumbered her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend";
    - charge, saddle, burden
     
  4. [Brit, informal] Load or burden; encumber
    "he lumbered me with that heavy responsibility";
    - saddle

Sounds like: lox, locks, lomber, lu

Derived forms: lumbered, lumbers, lumbering

Type of: baseball equipment, bat, building material, burden, burthen, command, cut down, drop, fell, require, strike down, walk, weight, weight down

Encyclopedia: Lumber, West Virginia