Definition of lumber

• n. - A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
• n. - Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.
• n. - Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber.
• b. t. - To heap together in disorder.
• b. t. - To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.
• v. i. - To move heavily, as if burdened.
• v. i. - To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.
• v. i. - To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.