Noun: lumber lúm-bu(r)
- The wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
"They ordered lumber to frame the new house";
- timber
- An implement used in baseball by the batter
"He swung the lumber and hit a home run";
- baseball bat
- Move heavily or clumsily
"The heavy man lumbered across the room";
- pound
- Cut lumber, as in woods and forests
"The company lumbered the old-growth forest";
- log
- [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
- [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