Usually means: Wood processed for building use.
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We found 43 dictionaries that define the word lumber:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. lumber: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. lumber, lumber, lumber: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lumber, lumber: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lumber: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lumber: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lumber, lumber: Wordnik
  7. lumber: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. lumber: Wiktionary
  9. lumber: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lumber: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lumber: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Lumber, lumber: Dictionary.com
  13. lumber (n.), lumber (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. lumber: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Lumber (disambiguation), Lumber: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. lumber: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. lumber: Rhymezone
  18. lumber: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. lumber: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. LUMBER: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  21. Lumber: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. lumber: Free Dictionary
  23. lumber: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. lumber: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. lumber: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. lumber: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. Lumber: Online Plain Text English Dictionary

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. lumber: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  2. lumber: Legal dictionary
  3. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lumber: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lumber: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. lumber: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. lumber, lumber, lumber, lumber, lumber, lumber: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. lumber: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. lumber: The Folk File
  4. Lumber: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. lumber: NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL
  2. Glossary of Woodworking Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See lumbered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (Canada, US) Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material.
noun:  (now rare) Old furniture or other items that take up room, or are stored away.
noun:  (figurative) Useless or cumbrous material.
noun:  (obsolete) A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
noun:  (baseball, slang) A baseball bat.
noun:  (vulgar, slang) An erect penis.
verb:  (intransitive) To move clumsily and heavily; to move slowly.
verb:  (transitive, with with) To load down with things, to fill, to encumber, to impose an unwanted burden on.
verb:  To heap together in disorder.
verb:  To fill or encumber with lumber.
verb:  (transitive, slang, obsolete) To pawn (goods).

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    brown,     tan,     beige,     mahogany,     chestnut,     redwood,     ebony,     sand,     taupe,     sienna



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