Lumber - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈlʌmbər|
Brit.
|ˈlʌmbə|
noun
- the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material (syn: timber)
- an implement used in baseball by the batter
- an implement used in baseball by the batter
verb
- move heavily or clumsily (syn: pound)
The heavy man lumbered across the room
- cut lumber, as in woods and forests (syn: log)Extra examples
He works for a lumber company.
I should be mere living lumber.
They lumbered along slowly.
A blue bus lumbered past.
A career was less easy once I was lumbered with a husband and children.
The heavy man lumbered across the room
...the company has a large storehouse filled with lumber for manufacturing its line of furniture...
The lumber was lifted by crane and dropped into the truck.
Canadian tariffs enabled United States lumber companies to raise prices at home
Word forms
verb
I/you/we/they: lumber
he/she/it: lumbers
present participle: lumbering
past tense: lumbered
past participle: lumbered
I/you/we/they: lumber
he/she/it: lumbers
present participle: lumbering
past tense: lumbered
past participle: lumbered
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