Lum"ber (?), n. [Prob. fr.
Lombard, the Lombards being the money lenders and pawnbrokers
of the Middle Ages. A lumber room was, according to Trench,
originally a Lombard room, or room where the Lombard
pawnbroker stored his pledges. See Lombard.]
1. A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing
articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. [Obs.]
They put all the little plate they had in the
lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came.
Lady Murray.
2. Old or refuse household stuff; things
cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.
3. Timber sawed or split into the form of
beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which
is smaller than heavy timber. [U.S.]
Lumber kiln, a room in which timber or
lumber is dried by artificial heat. [U.S.] -- Lumber
room, a room in which unused furniture or other lumber
is kept. [U.S.] -- Lumber wagon, a heavy
rough wagon, without springs, used for general farmwork,
etc.
Lum"ber, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Lumbered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Lumbering.] 1. To heap together in
disorder. " Stuff lumbered together." Rymer.
2. To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to
lumber up a room.
Lum"ber, v. i. 1.
To move heavily, as if burdened.
2. [Cf. dial. Sw. lomra to resound.]
To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to
rumble. Cowper.
3. To cut logs in the forest, or prepare
timber for market. [U.S.]
