lumbern.¹

Brit.

/ˈlʌmbə/, U.S.

/ˈləmbər/

Forms: Also 1500s lumbor, 1600s lumbar.

Etymology: Probably < lumber v.¹, which occurs much earlier. But as a lumber-house n. or pawnbroker's shop was in fact a storehouse for such odds and ends of property as are denominated ‘lumber’, the word was probably at one time more or less associated with lumber n.²

a. Disused articles of furniture and the like, which take up room inconveniently, or are removed to be out of the way; useless odds and ends.

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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > [noun] > that which is useless > useless person or thing > thing or object > collectively

nifles in a bag1530

lumber1552

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Baggage, lumbor, or trumperye, scruta.

1587 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 300 The tobs, kyrnes, stands, dishes, formes, chaires, stoles, and other lumbar.

1596 in Unton Inventories (1841) 2 In the Warthrope..ij paire of olde virginalls, and other lumber there.

1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 3 A deale of lumber and luggage.

1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Oct. (1965) I. 279 I won't trouble you with the catalogue of the rest of the Lumber.

1817 L. Hunt Let. to C. C. Clarke in Gentleman's Mag. May (1876) 601 All the chaos of packed trunks, lumber,..&c.

1884 Globe 6 Oct. 2/1 Three pictures..stowed away for nearly fifty years as lumber.

b. figurative. Useless or cumbrous material.

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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > worthless > collectively

riff-raff1526

trumpery1531

triff-traff1547

trashery1557

dudgeon1593

lee1593

sweeping1641

lumber1649

worthless1758

trashtrie1786

tagraggery1837

flotsam1861

tat1951

1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xvii. 162 When Ministers came to have Lands, Houses, Farmes, Coaches, Horses, and the like Lumber.

1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 35 The Bookful Blockhead..With Loads of Learned Lumber in his Head.

1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man ii. 27 I'm to be a mere article of family lumber.

1858 Darwin in Life & Lett. II. 127 I should be mere living lumber.

2. Superfluous fat, esp. in horses.

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the world > life > the body > bodily substance > fat > [noun]

midgeneOE

adepsa1398

fat1539

flesh-budget1592

adipose membrane1682

lumber1806

adipose tissue1813

adipose1814

suet1879

cellulite1968

podge1976

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > constituent materials > [noun] > fat > superfluous

lumber1806

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > physical condition or types of > superfluous fat

lumber1806

1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. i. 5 With all my fleshy lumber about me.

1885 Sat. Rev. 6 June 749/2 Plenty of muscle and no lumber.

1891 H. S. Constable Horses, Sport & War 15 Good thorough-bred horses have also lost what goes by the name of ‘lumber’—such as lumps of flesh and fat..on the top of the neck.

1891 H. S. Constable Horses, Sport & War 18 Sir Tatton seldom praised a horse without adding ‘there is no lumber about him’.

3. North American. Timber sawn into rough planks or otherwise roughly prepared for the market.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > sawn

lumber1662

resaw1972

1662 Suffolk Deeds (Suffolk County, Mass.) 26 Aug. Freighted in Boston,..with Beames, for houses, boards..and other Lumber.

1755 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 16/1 The principle articles of their [Rhode Islanders] trade are horses, lumber, and cheese.

1862 A. Trollope N. Amer. I. 107 Timber in Canada is called lumber.

1900 Contemp. Rev. July 60 The millwright operated the mill giving the supply of bread and lumber.

1928 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 119/1 Behind the lumber grand-stand, which..resembled every natural wooden grand-stand in the world, stretched a grass meadow.

1928 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 120/1 We found Miss J. and Miss N. in a home where the lumber had mellowed—featuring an entrancing tint.

1941 Sun (Baltimore) 15 Oct. 5/5 They take nuts and bolts out of packing cases, pick up broken and abandoned field telephone wire along the roadsides, whittle scrap lumber with penknives and produce workable Morse sending keys.

1945 J. J. Mathews Talking to Moon 66 I had lumber left over from the building of the chicken and pheasant houses.

1965 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 5 Jan. B5 A company that will manufacture prefabricated homes in the United Kingdom with Canadian lumber.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

a. (In sense 1.)

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lumber-cellar n.

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1832 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 24 Mar. 59/2 Stone bottles..collected from all the lumber-cellars in the country.

1910 Daily Chron. 18 Jan. 3/4 A cramped and pokey lumber-cellar.

lumber-closet n.

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1854 M. S. Cummins Lamplighter v The former lumber-closet, now transformed into a really snug and comfortable bed-room.

lumber-garret n.

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1838 J. W. Croker in Croker Papers 1 Nov. (1884) II I should look with more expectation to the lumber garrets than to the muniment room.

lumber-house n. cf. lumber-house n.

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1720 in A. M. Davis Tracts Currency Mass. Bay (1902) 385 Hemp, Flax, Turpentine..to be stored up in the Lumber-house.

1728 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 175 A lumberhouse of Books in every head.

1806 M. L. Weems Lett. II. 356 T'other day..I found a box in the lumber house of a Gentleman at Columbia.

1899 H. B. Cushman Hist. Indians 162 A lumberhouse and granary, each 18 × 20 ft.

lumber-office n.

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1687 T. Brown Saints in Uproar in Wks. (1730) I. 82 Carry that..halbard to my lumber-office.

lumber-place n.

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1744 W. Cole in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 296 Laid up in a Lumber Place.

lumber-raft n.

(b)

lumber-headed adj.

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1818 T. G. Fessenden Ladies Monitor 38 I would not wish your pedant lumber-headed.

1891 J. C. Atkinson Last of Giant-killers 100 The usually lumber-headed old giants.

b. (In sense 3.)

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lumber-ark n.

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a1861 T. Winthrop Canoe & Saddle v. 83 It [sc. a river] signifies navigation, in birch-canoe, seventy-four, floating palace, dug-out, or lumber ark.

lumber-boat n.

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1902 Westm. Gaz. 28 Aug. 2/1 Flat, ugly, lumber-boats.

lumber-box n.

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1834 S. Smith Sel. Lett. Major Jack Downing 26 I want you to load up the old lumber-box..with bean poles.

lumber-bush n.

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1850 Knickerbocker Mag. 35 22 I had the misfortune to live in this town four years, my father having a lumber-bush there.

lumber-business n.

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1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 211 Husbandry..is much preferable to the lumber business.

1856 Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. 7 827 The lumber business of the Saginaw river and its tributaries has been developed.

1896 15th Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1895–6 79 Gov. Woodbury has spent years as superintendent of the Burlington branch of J. R. Booth's gigantic lumber business.

lumber-checker n.

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1901 S. Merwin & H. K. Webster Calumet ‘K’ viii. 141 Max, who to Bannon was merely an unusually capable lumber-checker, was to Peterson a friend and adviser.

lumber-cutter n.

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1775 B. Romans Conc. Nat. Hist. E. & W. Florida 117 [They] planted their baronies in the pine barrens. There let the lords be lumber cutters!

lumber-field n.

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1881 Chicago Times 4 June Pineries, lumber-fields [etc.].

lumber-gang n.

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1904 G. Stratton-Porter Freckles 354 He joined one of my lumber-gangs from the road.

lumber industry n.

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1889 Cent. Mag. Feb. 601/2 I've come here to write up the lumber industry.

lumber-king n.

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1889 W. H. Withrow Our own Country: Canada 372 One of the great lumber-kings of the country.

1918 Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. LIV. 321 Mr. Narcross, of Lowell (the ‘lumber-king’), hit the audience ‘between wind and water’ with a highly valuable array of facts.

1941 Yankee Dec. 19/3 They were..Anderton's lumber kings; so nobody minded their smelling strongly of horses, even in the Methodist basement.

lumber-merchant n.

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1789 Boston Directory 181 Dillaway, Samuel, lumber-merchant.

1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 23 The preacher..had been..a lumber-merchant.

lumber-products n.

lumber-raft n.

lumber-sledge n.

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1905 Westm. Gaz. 27 Jan. 7/2 A large number of coffins were laid upon a lumber-sledge.

lumber-steamer n.

lumber-trade n.

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1816 Deb. Congr. 30 Jan. (1854) 809 A part of their fisheries and lumber trade gone..they are called upon by your tax-gatherers.

1840 Knickerbocker Mag. 16 217 The lumber-trade is a business which will be introduced the moment the resources in pine, of more southerly regions, are exhausted.

1874 2nd Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1873–4 161 The lumber trade of Quebec has been, and still is, very large.

lumber-vessel n.

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1835 J. H. Ingraham South-West I. iv. 51 These lumber vessels..are usually loaded with shingles, masts, spars, and boards.

lumber-wharf n.

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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Lumber-wharf, a timber-yard.

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lumber-laden adj.

lumber-preparing adj.

C2. Also lumberman n., lumber room n.

lumber-act n. ? an act of parliament regulating the lumber-trade.

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1721 in N. Bouton Provinc. Papers New-Hampsh. (1869) III. 834 A message to the house..for repealing the lumber Act.

lumber baron n. U.S. a leading or wealthy timber merchant.

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society > trade and finance > trader > merchant > [noun] > wealthy > in specific trade

tobacco lord1832

railroad king1849

pork king1880

rum baron1887

lumber baron1888

tobacco baron1961

1888 N.Y. Life 18 Feb. 27/2 One of the..lumber ‘Barons’ of Michigan.

1889 E. Eggleston in Cent. Mag. Mar. 791/2 ‘Lumber barons’, ‘silver kings’ and creatures of railroad corporations.

1948 Time 29 Nov. 24/1 In many ways he seemed a throwback to the lumber barons, the cattle kings and the mining magnates who had ruled the West before him.

lumber-camp n. a camp in which lumbermen dwell.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > camp or encampment > [noun] > type of

ordu1673

chantier1823

douar1829

outcamp1844

log-camp1858

lumbering-camp1858

yayla1864

refugee camp1865

cow-camp1873

gypsyry1873

work camp1877

tent town1878

logging-camp1880

lumber-camp1882

town camp1885

base camp1887

line-camp1888

wanigan1890

isolation camp1891

tent village1899

sheep-camp1911

safari camp1912

jungle1914

transit camp1919

Siwash camp1922

health camp1925

tent city1934

fly camp1939

bivvy1961

1882 W. D. Howells Mod. Instance xxix, in Cent. Mag. Aug. 581/1 Down there in the lumber camp.

lumber-carrier n. (a) a vessel employed in the lumber-trade; (b) a vehicle for carrying lumber.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other vehicles according to specific use > [noun] > vehicle for moving timber or heavy weights

drug?a1549

drug cart?a1549

drug-carriage1665

tug1706

timber carriage1747

timber-tuga1800

janker1823

jinker1860

timber-cart1884

junker1885

lumber-carrier1928

straddle carrier1950

straddle truck1958

telehandler1982

1700 in N. Bouton Provinc. Papers New-Hampsh. (1869) III. 104 Coasting vessels and lumber carriers.

1928 Collier's 29 Dec. 5/4 On the left were rows of twenty-foot lumber piles, trams laid between them, and electric lumber carriers rolling on the trams.

lumber-cart n. ? = jockey-cart n. at jockey n. Compounds 2.

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1830 A. Cunningham Lives Brit. Painters (ed. 2) II. 228 He was stopt at Whetstone turnpike by a lumber or jockey cart.

lumber jacket n. originally North American a warm jacket of the type worn by lumbermen.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > jacket > (suitable) for specific purpose

cork-jacket1762

tea-jacket1887

stroller1901

sports jacket1912

bed-jacket1914

smoking1922

hacking jacket1935

safari jacket1938

lumber jacket1939

judogi1944

loafer1959

1939 These are our Lives (Federal Writers' Project, U.S.) 107 He was dressed in riding breeches and leather lumber-jacket.

1943 R.A.F. Jrnl. Aug. 16 They wore lumber jackets.

1953 S. Kauffmann Philanderer vii. 107 He went into the middle of the group and squatted next to Jake (he still remembered the smell of the woollen lumber-jacket).

1956 T. H. Raddall Wings of Night 70 I pulled on my old lumber jacket and went out to do the firewood chore.

1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 37 In its modern meaning, the lumber-jacket is very similar to an anorak. It is a short, straight jacket, reaching to the hips, with a centre-front fastening (usually zipped) and buckled at the sides to make it fit snugly.

1975 P. Somerville-Large Couch of Earth ix. 148 A black and red lumber-jacket, the sort American hunters wear.

lumber-line n. a railway constructed primarily for carrying lumber.

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1879 Lumberman's Gaz. 19 Nov. The ‘lumber lines’ are now getting their new cars ready.

lumber-mill n. a sawmill for cutting up lumber.

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1830 Deb. Congr. U.S. 11 Mar. 606/2 You will not find..such constant, unceasing labor as in our lumber mills.

1901 19th Cent. Oct. 550 Lumber mills, saw mills, grist mills.

lumber-money n. a tax levied upon lumber.

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1715 in N. Bouton Provinc. Papers New-Hampsh. (1868) II. 682 An account of the lumber mony and excise mony.

lumber-port n. (a) a port-hole in the bow or stern of a ship for loading or unloading timber; (b) a seaport from which lumber is shipped.

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1838 Yale Lit. Mag. 3 76 The pirates had knocked out the lumber port, with the intention of sinking her [sc. a ship].

1883 Wheelman 1 333 Calais [in Maine], the great lumber port of this part of the country.

lumber-raft n. a raft made of logs, boards, or the like.

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1837 W. Jenkins Ohio Gazetteer 62 The Hockhocking river..furnishes..a downward navigation for flat boats and lumber rafts.

1898 Engin. Mag. 16 96 Lumber-rafts can easily be built.

1961 B. Fergusson Watery Maze v. 111 Irrawaddy lumber-rafts.

lumber-scaler n. one who measures up timber.

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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > tree-crop > timber measurer

scaler1887

lumber-scaler1896

1896 New York Weekly Witness 30 Dec. 13/1 A famous lumber-scaler.

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lumber-shover n. a labourer in a lumber-yard (slang).

lumber town n. U.S. a town chiefly engaged in the timber trade.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > town with other industry or occupation

mill town1491

mining townc1827

lumber town1880

cow-town1885

company town1907

1880 Harper's Mag. Aug. 354/1 A cheerful little lumber town lying high among the hills.

1904 S. E. White Blazed Trail Stories i. 3 The sawdust streets..of the lumber town were filled with people.

1972 R. Neely Sexton Women (1974) ii. 12 She had been..brought up in a lumber town..near the Oregon border.

lumber-trade n. the trade in rough timber.

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society > trade and finance > specific types of trade > [noun] > trade in other specific articles

pig market1647

lumber-trade1689

oilery1830

whale-trade1840

shoe-trade1850

nitrate trade1871

cannabusiness1980

1689 in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1825) 3rd Ser. I. 98 They are supplied..with the lumber trade.

1732 D. Dunbar Let. 25 Aug. in Cal. State Papers (Colonial Ser.) (1939) 201 The undertaker for the masting has and does carry on a greatr [sic] lumber trade than any man in N. Engld.

1884 S. E. Dawson Handbk. Canada 129 Quebec [city] is..the centre of the lumber-trade.

1963 Canada Month Nov. 22/1 The lumber trade furnished employment for thousands of lumber jacks, river drivers, and sailors.

lumber tree n. a tree of importance as lumber.

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1896 15th Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1895–6 81 The pine as a lumber tree is already a thing of the past.

† lumber-troop n. Obsolete a convivial society of London citizens (dissolved in 1859), with a quasi-military organization, its president being styled the ‘colonel’; also allusively.

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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [noun] > convivial

lumber-troop1745

The Senators1762

Pic-Nic Society1802

1745 E. Ward's Compl. Acc. Clubs (title page) A Compleat and Humorous Account of all the Remarkable Clubs and Societies in the Cities of London and Westminster, From the R—l-S—y down to the Lumber-Troop, &c.

1805 M. A. Shee Rhymes on Art (1806) 76 Dolts,..Pass muster in the lumber troop of Taste.

lumber-trooper n.

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society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [noun] > convivial > member of

Sirenaic1616

lumber-trooperc1742

picnic1802

picnickian1802

c1742 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. II. 525 All other institutions, whether..Hiccubites, Lumber-Troopers, or Free-Masons.

lumber-wagon n. North American a springless wagon of a type used for hauling lumber or for general transport (see also quot. 1962).

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > wagon (usually four-wheeled) > other types

telega1579

trewerne1667

box wagon1825

lumber-wagon1831

morphoditea1852

Flanders wagon1855

1831 A. Stoddard Diary 30 Nov. in Michigan Hist. Mag. (1927) 11 472 Breakfast swallowed we stepped into our next rig, which was a lumber wagon drawn by two very good horses.

1842 M. Crawford Jrnl. 5 Left Buffalo at 11 o'clock in the morning in a lumber waggon on our way to the steam boat.

1849 N. P. Willis Rural Lett. xix. 165 So over the hills I jolted—three days and nights in springless lumber wagons.

1862 O. W. Norton Army Lett. 106 Great covered wagons as large as two of our lumber wagons.

1887 C. D. Warner Their Pilgrimage (1888) xiii. 288 At this season one meets them [sc. the hop-pickers] on all the roads driving from farm to farm in lumber wagons.

1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl 1 Gathered about the little village station in hard~seated lumber-wagons.

1961 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. 24 July 11/7 They forded the North Saskatchewan River in a lumber wagon.

1962 Amer. Speech 37 270 Lumber wagon, an old, broken-down automobile, particularly one that rides rough.

lumber-wood n. a wood where lumber is cut.

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1891 N.Y. Sun in Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. Nov. A man that works in the lumber-woods.

lumber-yard n. North American a timber-yard.

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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > timber-yard

timber-yard1482

wood-fold1570

lumber-yard1786

balk-yard1823

chantier1823

1786 Maryland Jrnl. 4 Apr. Lumber-yard, at the head of Baltimore Bason.

1818 H. B. Fearon Sketches Amer. 23 The timber, or (as the term is here) lumber yards, are not on that large and compact scale with which, in England, our friends C— and M— are familiar.

1835 Southern Lit. Messenger 1 291 Men of business delighted..in seeing the fine river obstructed by logs and slabs, and every corner wearing the appearance of a lumber-yard.

1851 C. Cist Sketches & Statistics Cincinnati 207 Connected with the machinery is a lumber yard.

1961 W. E. Greening Ottawa 108 The district close to the lumberyards was full of waterfront dives.

1973 C. Williams Man on Leash (1974) iv. 52 Lew was..running a lumberyard and building supply here.

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lumbern.²

Brit.

/ˈlʌmbə/, U.S.

/ˈləmbər/

Etymology: variant of Lombard n.¹

†a. A pawnbroking establishment; = Lombard n.¹ 3. Obsolete.

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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > pawnshop

Lombard1609

lumber1617

lumber-house1677

pawnshop1720

rumbo ken1724

pop-shop1772

spout1819

pawnbrokery1821

dolly-shop1851

pawn1868

hock-shop1871

poverty shop1948

1617 J. Minsheu Vocabularium Hispanicolatinum in Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas Mónte de piedád, a lumber or bancke to lend money for a yeare, for those that need, without interest.

1749 G. Murray Mem. George Baillie & Grisell Baillie (1822) 53 They put up the little plate they had..in the Lumber, which is pawning it.

b. Phrases. to put to lumber: to put in pawn or pledge. to be in lumber (slang): to be imprisoned; also, to be in trouble.

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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > borrow money [verb (transitive)] > pawn

to give (also have, lay, put, take) to pledgec1384

to set, put, lay to or in wedc1384

engage1525

pawn1570

to lay (up) in lavender1584

impawn1598

oppignorate1622

pignorate1623

dip1640

to put to lumber1671

vamp1699

pop1731

sweatc1800

spout1811

lumber1819

up the spout1819

hock1878

soak1882

to put away1887

society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > be imprisoned [verb (intransitive)]

wake1338

to lie by ita1644

to be in lumber1819

fall1874

to partake of (or enjoy) His (or Her) Majesty's hospitality1894

to go down1906

the world > action or operation > adversity > be in adversity [verb (intransitive)]

tholec897

pinea1225

steada1300

endure1340

to well in woea1350

labourc1450

concernc1592

to have a good (bad, etc.) time (of it, formerly on it)1647

to have the wind in one's face1649

to be on (also at) the receiving end1909

to feel the draught1925

to have (one's) ass in a sling1960

to be in lumber1965

1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ (at cited word) To put one's Clothes to Lumbar, pignori dare.

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) A man..sent to gaol is said to be lumbered, to be in lumber, or to be in Lombard-Street.

1963 ‘J. Prescot’ Case for Hearing viii. 125 My poor old dad was in and out of lumber all his life.

1965 A. Prior Interrogators xi. 202 We're out on a limb hoping for a confession, and if we don't get it we're in dead lumber.

1967 ‘M. Carroll’ Begotten Murder iv. 104 It rather looks to me as if someone is trying to get Susan in lumber.

1972 L. Henderson Cage until Tame vi. 43 I've got to keep at it. Break my bloody leg or something stupid like that and I'm in lumber.

†2. Money due with respect to articles pawned. Obsolete.

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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > [noun] > act of pawning > money due on articles pawned

lumbera1680

a1680 S. Butler On Critics 94 And, by an action falsely laid of Trover, The lumber for their proper goods recover.

3. slang. A house or room; spec. one where stolen property is hidden; a house used by criminals.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > dwelling of specific types of people > of thieves or criminals

denc1275

case?1536

ken1567

nest1617

lumber1753

1753 Discov. J. Poulter (ed. 2) 33 They pike up the Prancers, that is, go up Stairs, and fisk the Lumbers, that is, search the Rooms.

1789 G. Parker Life's Painter xiv. 129 Have you any body in the lumber behind the bar?

1789 G. Parker Life's Painter xv. 154 Lumber. A room.

1790 H. T. Potter Dict. Cant & Flash Lang. Lumber, a house convenient for the reception of swindlers, sharpers, and cheats.

1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 34 The polka is greatly in favour with the femmes of this lumber.

1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 74 His long room, or ‘slanging lumber’, is the scene of many a choice spree and downey movement.

1923 S. T. Felstead Underworld of London iii. 108 The proprietor of the ‘lumber’, where stolen property is stored pending a suitable buyer, also wants his whack.

1938 F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad xiv. 151 Her husband was taken into custody at a ‘lumber’ (hide-out for stolen property) in Walthamstow.

1950 R. Fabian Fabian of Yard xxxiv. 206 Lumber, address used by a prostitute for her profession only.

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lumbern.³

Brit.

/ˈlʌmbə/, U.S.

/ˈləmbər/

Etymology: < lumber v.¹

A rumbling noise.

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > [noun] > roll or rumble

humblingc1384

bubblinga1398

hurlinga1398

grolling1398

rumblec1405

rumblingc1405

rolling1535

blumbering1556

roll1602

rumblement1604

grumblinga1616

lumbering1621

volutation1640

lumber1752

growlery1830

growl1833

growling1834

grumble1899

strumble1938

1752 W. Smith in Philos. Trans. 1749–50 (Royal Soc.) 46 729 One other Person..heard the Noise [of an earthquake], but judged it to be an odd Lumber above Stairs.

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lumbern.⁴

Brit.

/ˈlʌmbə/, U.S.

/ˈləmbər/, Scottish English

/ˈlʌmbər/

Etymology: < lumber v.⁴

slang (chiefly Scottish).

(a) Amorous or sexual play. (b) A person regarded as a prospective sexual partner; a casual pick-up, a date.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun]

playOE

loveOE

toucha1400

chamber workc1450

venery1497

bed-glee1582

bed-game1596

fiddling1622

twatting1893

sexual relations1897

fun time1905

massage1906

sex play1922

actionc1930

hanky-panky1939

making-out1957

lumber1966

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual partner > [noun] > prospective

lumber1966

the mind > emotion > love > action of caressing > [noun] > instance of caressing > act or instance of amorous caressing

playOE

gamec1225

playingc1300

sportc1450

slap and tickle1928

lumber1966

the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun] > practice of going on dates > person with whom one has a date

date1925

lumber1966

the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > state of being acquainted > acquaintance > chance acquaintance

pickup1871

lumber1966

1966 P. Willmott Adolescent Boys E. London iii. 49 They would often try to move on from kissing to sexual play; as they put it, they..‘had a bit of lumber’.

1973 ‘J. Patrick’ Glasgow Gang Observed v. 56 I was roundly abused..for walking a girl home. ‘Yir lumber's a cow,’ they informed me.

1985 M. Munro Patter 43 We were at the jiggin last night; couldny get a lumber, but.

1987 Sunday Times 30 Aug. 21/5 She and her four companions—all from Scotland—end the evening in a disco where they wait for a lumber.

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lumberv.¹

Brit.

/ˈlʌmbə/, U.S.

/ˈləmbər/

Etymology: Possibly two or more words may have coalesced. Middle English lomere may have been a frequentative formation on lome lame adj. With sense 2 compare Swedish dialect lomra to roar (Rietz). The word, however, may be partly of direct imitative formation in English.

1. intransitive. To move in a clumsy or blundering manner; in later use only, to move heavily on account of unwieldiness of bulk and mass. Now always with adverb complement.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move heavily or clumsily

lumberc1400

lumper1581

lob1819

hulka1825

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1094 Summe lepre, summe lome, and lomerande blynde.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 586/1 I hoble, or halte, or lomber, as a horse dothe, je cloche.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 103 Let 'em not..lumber o're the Meads; or cross the Wood.

1728 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 248 Thy giddy dulness still shall lumber on.

c1771 S. Foote Maid of Bath iii. 48 Hush!—I hear him lumbering in.

1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft iii. 100 The massive idol leapt lumbering from the carriage.

1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance viii. 76 We..were pretty well agreed as to the inexpediency of lumbering along with the old system any further.

1899 S. R. Crockett Kit Kennedy xxii. 153 ‘Ouch..!’ barked Royal lumbering outwards like a great pot-walloping elephant through the shallows.

1902 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 400/1 They lumbered to attention as I entered.

2. To rumble, make a rumbling noise. ? Obsolete exc. U.S.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > [verb (intransitive)] > roll or rumble

gothelec1290

gurlc1380

bubblea1398

wharc1400

rumblec1450

rolla1522

lumber?1527

jumble1530

thumble1584

humble1617

grumblea1625

strumble1645

growl1744

?1527 J. Skelton Agaynste Comely Coystrowne He lumbryth on a lewde lewte roty bully Joy. Rumbyll downe tumbyll downe hey go now now.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 615/2 I lumber, I make a noyse above one's head... You lumbred so over my heed I coulde nat slepe.

1584 C. Robinson et al. Handefull Pleasant Delites (new ed.) (title of song) sig. Diii^v A proper new Dity..To the tune of Lumber me.

?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xvii. 643 A boisterous gust of wind Lumbering amongst it.

1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 486 Wee heard a noise..continuing with increase of lumbring.

1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 232 The lumbering of the wheels.

1855 J. E. Cooke Ellie 207 Keeping the footman lumberin at the knockers on both sides o' the street.

1890 Dial. Notes 1 65 ‘Listen how he lumbers’, said of a deep-mouthed dog's barking when he has treed a 'coon or 'possum.

1904 T. Watson Bethany (1920) 165 And he himself did not always know what he had on his mind until he pushed back his specs, and began to ‘lumber’ [= hold forth].

†3. transitive. ? To utter with a rumbling noise. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. A.iv They lumber forth the lawe..Expoundyng out theyr clauses.

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lumberv.²

Brit.

/ˈlʌmbə/, U.S.

/ˈləmbər/

Etymology: < lumber n.¹

a. transitive. Originally: to cover, fill up, or obstruct with lumber; to burden uselessly, encumber. Now usually: to leave (someone) with something unwanted or unpleasant; to get (someone) into trouble or difficulties; frequently passive. Said both of personal agents, and of the things which form the encumbrance. Sometimes with over, up.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill > to obstruction

cumberc1394

encumberc1400

cloy1548

pester1548

accumberc1571

clog1586

to take up1587

lumber1642

over-clog1660

crowd1741

jama1865

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > hinder in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > encumber

accumberc1275

encumberc1386

accloy1422

overlay1441

cumber1493

poister1523

pester1533

overgrowa1550

clog1564

cloy1564

aggravate1573

trasha1616

hamper1775

mither1847

lumber1861

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > hinder in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > encumber > burden > cause to fall as a burden (upon)

devolve1601

saddle1729

lumber1924

to drop, throw, etc., (something) in someone's lap1962

1642 O. Sedgwick England's Preserv. 5 An indigested Thicket, lumbred all over with weedes.

1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 81 I hope it [sc. a chapel] will never be lumber'd again.

1798 Capt. Miller in Ld. Nelson Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VII. p. clviii We..sent our prisoners and their baggage which lumbered our guns, on board the Goliath.

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 328 Empty bottles lumbered the bottom of every closet.

1825 Lockhart Let. in S. Smiles Publisher & Friends (1891) II. xxvii. 229 I..should be sorry to have them [sc. packages] lumbering your warehouses.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxix. 98 The decks were lumbered up with everything.

1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 49 There is no worse mistake than lumbering oneself with things that are never wanted.

1861 J. Tulloch Eng. Puritanism ii. 247 The mere details of controversy..lumber his style.

1866 W. D. Howells Venetian Life 148 I could not, in any honesty, lumber my pages with descriptions.

1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xxxvii. 319 One side and two angles of the court are always lumbered with crates, hampers, and wooden cases.

1901 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 261 The ships of war were lumbered up with the soldiers.

1924 E. Wallace Room 13 i. 9 ‘If they lumbered you with the crime, it was because you was a mug,’ said Lal complacently. ‘That's what mugs are for—to be lumbered.’

1951 A. Baron Rosie Hogarth iii. iv. 180 I suppose you're afraid... Of getting lumbered, eh?

1958 T. Hall in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz xix. 233 Poor old Don Rendell..got really lumbered. He left his clarinet with Gee's with the proviso that it would be forfeited if the trousers and windcheaters weren't returned by the following Monday. Needless to say, they weren't.

1961 A. Simpson & R. Galton Four Hancock Scripts 35/2 Every time I travel on a train I get lumbered with a carriageful of the most miserable-looking bunch of face-aches you've ever seen in your life.

1964 G. Davis Friday before Bank Holiday i. 11 I want to realise on the cottage..but I'm lumbered unless I can find another home for Fiddler.

1968 J. Lock Lady Policeman xii. 113 I tell him I'm lumbered for court in the morning.

b. intransitive. To lie as lumber.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up space [verb (intransitive)] > occupy obstructively

lumber1850

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > become useless [verb (intransitive)] > lie uselessly

lumber1850

1850 D. Macmillan in Life (1882) ii. 11 A queer mass of rubbish to lie lumbering in any one's brain.

2. To heap or place together as lumber, without order or method; to deposit as lumber.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > crowd together > in a disorderly manner

hoderc1330

clotter1537

pester1570

huddle1579

huddle1600

clutterc1610

lumber1678

the mind > possession > supply > storage > store [verb (transitive)] > without order

lumber1733

1678 T. Rymer Trag. Last Age 41 In Rollo we meet with so much stuff lumberd together.

1733 D. Mallet Of Verbal Crit. 16 With all their refuse lumber'd in his head.

1805 M. A. Shee Rhymes on Art 369 How that [sc. picture], long..lumber'd in some filthy broker's stall, Lay, lost to fame.

a. intransitive. To perform the labour or carry on the business of cutting forest timber and preparing it for the market. occasionally transitive (North American).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > lumber [verb (intransitive)]

lumber1809

1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. III. lxviii. 73 The verb to lumber has also the..sense, to procure or even to manufacture lumber.

1870 Maine Rep. 56 566 The plaintiff lumbered on his township called Holeb.

1891 R. A. Alger in Voice (N.Y.) 15 Oct. I..commenced lumbering in a small way.

1891 R. A. Alger in Voice (N.Y.) 15 Oct. We then lumbered a million and a quarter feet a year.

1893 Scribner's Mag. June 711/1 They bought and lumbered timber on their own account.

b. transitive. To go over (ground) cutting the timber on it.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [verb (transitive)] > fell an area

log1699

lumber1851

1831 Trans. Lit. & Hist. Soc. Quebec 2 269 His intention..was to clear land and lumber some.]

1851 J. F. W. Johnston Notes N. Amer. I. 52 We clean up two or three acres every year of the lumbered land (land from which the timber has been cut).

1871 R. L. Dashwood Chiploquorgan v. 60 This part of the country has never been ‘lumbered’, being too difficult of access.

1900 U.S. Dept. Agric. Yearbk. 365 The cut-over lands..which..have been lumbered heavily, not only for timber but also for fuel.

1971 Lebende Sprachen 16 9/2 This valley was lumbered in 1955. We lumbered more than a million acres last year.

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lumberv.³

Brit.

/ˈlʌmbə/, U.S.

/ˈləmbər/

Etymology: < lumber n.²

slang.

transitive. To deposit (property) in pawn; hence (originally in passive), to put away privily, to imprison, arrest.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > borrow money [verb (transitive)] > pawn

to give (also have, lay, put, take) to pledgec1384

to set, put, lay to or in wedc1384

engage1525

pawn1570

to lay (up) in lavender1584

impawn1598

oppignorate1622

pignorate1623

dip1640

to put to lumber1671

vamp1699

pop1731

sweatc1800

spout1811

lumber1819

up the spout1819

hock1878

soak1882

to put away1887

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)]

at-holda1230

attacha1325

resta1325

takec1330

arrest1393

restay?a1400

tachec1400

seisinc1425

to take upa1438

stowc1450

seize1471

to lay (also set, clap, etc.) (a person) by the heels?1515

deprehend1532

apprehend1548

nipa1566

upsnatcha1566

finger1572

to make stay of1572

embarge1585

cap1590

reprehend1598

prehenda1605

embar1647

nap1665

nab1686

bone1699

roast1699

do1784

touch1785

pinch1789

to pull up1799

grab1800

nick1806

pull1811

hobble1819

nail1823

nipper1823

bag1824

lag1847

tap1859

snaffle1860

to put the collar on1865

copper1872

to take in1878

lumber1882

to pick up1887

to pull in1893

lift1923

drag1924

to knock off1926

to put the sleeve on1930

bust1940

pop1960

vamp1970

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) To lumber any property, is to deposit it at a pawnbroker's..; to retire to any..private place, for a short time is called lumbering yourself. A man..sent to gaol is said to be lumbered.

1840 Fraser's Mag. 22 578 Revelling in the reminiscences of the number of times they have been lumbered.

1882 Sydney Slang Dict. 6/1 Lumber, to take or carry away to the lock-up.

1931 Police Jrnl. Oct. 501 Did the detective (busy) arrest (lumber) Jack?

1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned ii. 17 Don't you worry about the police. If there's a warrant out for you..they'll lumber you sooner or later.

1961 B. Crump Hang on a Minute Mate 136 We were sneaking into the church to bunk down last night when the johns lumbered us.

1970 M. Kenyon 100,000 Welcomes iv. 30 We're pros—twice in twelve years I've been lumbered... Only twice in twelve years screwing.

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lumberv.⁴

Brit.

/ˈlʌmbə/, U.S.

/ˈləmbər/, Scottish English

/ˈlʌmbər/

Etymology: Of uncertain origin.

slang (chiefly Scottish).

(a) intransitive and transitive. To engage in amorous or sexual play (with); sometimes, to copulate (with). (b) transitive. To court, to chat up; to pick up.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)]

nighc1175

to come at ——a1398

sport1577

lumber1938

the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > court or woo [verb (transitive)]

wooc1290

court1580

suitc1586

accourt1590

suitor1672

address1700

gallantize1728

philander1787

to stick up1830

spark1888

romance1931

lumber1938

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse

playOE

to do (also work) one's kindc1225

bedc1315

couple1362

gendera1382

to go togetherc1390

to come togethera1398

meddlea1398

felterc1400

companya1425

swivec1440

japea1450

mellc1450

to have to do with (also mid, of, on)1474

engender1483

fuck?a1513

conversec1540

jostlec1540

confederate1557

coeate1576

jumble1582

mate1589

do1594

conjoin1597

grind1598

consortc1600

pair1603

to dance (a dance) between a pair of sheets1608

commix1610

cock1611

nibble1611

wap1611

bolstera1616

incorporate1622

truck1622

subagitate1623

occupya1626

minglec1630

copulate1632

fere1632

rut1637

joust1639

fanfreluche1653

carnalize1703

screw1725

pump1730

correspond1756

shag1770

hump1785

conjugate1790

diddle1879

to get some1889

fuckeec1890

jig-a-jig1896

perform1902

rabbit1919

jazz1920

sex1921

root1922

yentz1923

to make love1927

rock1931

mollock1932

to make (beautiful) music (together)1936

sleep1936

bang1937

lumber1938

to hop into bed (with)1951

to make out1951

ball1955

score1960

trick1965

to have it away1966

to roll in the hay1966

to get down1967

poontang1968

pork1968

shtup1969

shack1976

bonk1984

boink1985

the mind > emotion > love > action of caressing > caress or make a show of affection [verb (intransitive)] > caress sexually

pet1921

lumber1938

the mind > emotion > love > love affair > have a love affair [verb (transitive)] > initiate a casual or sexual relationship (with)

to pick up1672

lumber1938

to pick up1958

the mind > emotion > love > action of caressing > caress [verb (transitive)] > caress in order to excite sexually > engage in sexual caressing

rifle1560

lumber1938

1938 G. Kersh Night & City iv. 53 All right,..I'm a ponce; they marry money. Zoë lumbers for a fiver; them women lumber for a million.

1960 Punch 9 Mar. 345/1 Many of us are chatting or lumbering (courting!).

1960 News Chron. 5 Mar. 5/1 When we talked about ‘lumbering’ they thought we meant making love... It means chatting, going steady.

1966 J. Gaskell All Neat in Black Stockings (1968) 96 The girl with fish-net stockings Tom brought back with him from Jersey and was still lumbering.

1981 A. Gray Lanark (1982) xvii. 173 ‘Last Friday I saw her being lumbered by a hardman up a close near the Denistoun Palais.’ ‘Lumbered?’ ‘Groped. Felt.’

1985 M. Munro Patter 43 Ma pal got lumbered by your big brother.

1991 J. Kelman Burn (1992) 220 Derek slept with this woman a coupla years ago... He lumbered her from a pub up in London.

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n.¹1552

n.²1617

n.³1752

n.⁴1966

v.¹c1400

v.²1642

v.³1819

v.⁴1938

单词	lumber
释义	lumbern.¹ Brit. /ˈlʌmbə/, U.S. /ˈləmbər/ Forms: Also 1500s lumbor, 1600s lumbar. Etymology: Probably < lumber v.¹, which occurs much earlier. But as a lumber-house n. or pawnbroker's shop was in fact a storehouse for such odds and ends of property as are denominated ‘lumber’, the word was probably at one time more or less associated with lumber n.² 1. a. Disused articles of furniture and the like, which take up room inconveniently, or are removed to be out of the way; useless odds and ends. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > [noun] > that which is useless > useless person or thing > thing or object > collectively nifles in a bag1530 lumber1552 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Baggage, lumbor, or trumperye, scruta. 1587 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 300 The tobs, kyrnes, stands, dishes, formes, chaires, stoles, and other lumbar. 1596 in Unton Inventories (1841) 2 In the Warthrope..ij paire of olde virginalls, and other lumber there. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 3 A deale of lumber and luggage. 1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Oct. (1965) I. 279 I won't trouble you with the catalogue of the rest of the Lumber. 1817 L. Hunt Let. to C. C. Clarke in Gentleman's Mag. May (1876) 601 All the chaos of packed trunks, lumber,..&c. 1884 Globe 6 Oct. 2/1 Three pictures..stowed away for nearly fifty years as lumber. b. figurative. Useless or cumbrous material. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > worthless > collectively riff-raff1526 trumpery1531 triff-traff1547 trashery1557 dudgeon1593 lee1593 sweeping1641 lumber1649 worthless1758 trashtrie1786 tagraggery1837 flotsam1861 tat1951 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xvii. 162 When Ministers came to have Lands, Houses, Farmes, Coaches, Horses, and the like Lumber. 1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 35 The Bookful Blockhead..With Loads of Learned Lumber in his Head. 1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man ii. 27 I'm to be a mere article of family lumber. 1858 Darwin in Life & Lett. II. 127 I should be mere living lumber. 2. Superfluous fat, esp. in horses. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily substance > fat > [noun] midgeneOE adepsa1398 fat1539 flesh-budget1592 adipose membrane1682 lumber1806 adipose tissue1813 adipose1814 suet1879 cellulite1968 podge1976 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > constituent materials > [noun] > fat > superfluous lumber1806 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > physical condition or types of > superfluous fat lumber1806 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. i. 5 With all my fleshy lumber about me. 1885 Sat. Rev. 6 June 749/2 Plenty of muscle and no lumber. 1891 H. S. Constable Horses, Sport & War 15 Good thorough-bred horses have also lost what goes by the name of ‘lumber’—such as lumps of flesh and fat..on the top of the neck. 1891 H. S. Constable Horses, Sport & War 18 Sir Tatton seldom praised a horse without adding ‘there is no lumber about him’. 3. North American. Timber sawn into rough planks or otherwise roughly prepared for the market. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > sawn lumber1662 resaw1972 1662 Suffolk Deeds (Suffolk County, Mass.) 26 Aug. Freighted in Boston,..with Beames, for houses, boards..and other Lumber. 1755 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 16/1 The principle articles of their [Rhode Islanders] trade are horses, lumber, and cheese. 1862 A. Trollope N. Amer. I. 107 Timber in Canada is called lumber. 1900 Contemp. Rev. July 60 The millwright operated the mill giving the supply of bread and lumber. 1928 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 119/1 Behind the lumber grand-stand, which..resembled every natural wooden grand-stand in the world, stretched a grass meadow. 1928 Chambers's Jrnl. Feb. 120/1 We found Miss J. and Miss N. in a home where the lumber had mellowed—featuring an entrancing tint. 1941 Sun (Baltimore) 15 Oct. 5/5 They take nuts and bolts out of packing cases, pick up broken and abandoned field telephone wire along the roadsides, whittle scrap lumber with penknives and produce workable Morse sending keys. 1945 J. J. Mathews Talking to Moon 66 I had lumber left over from the building of the chicken and pheasant houses. 1965 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 5 Jan. B5 A company that will manufacture prefabricated homes in the United Kingdom with Canadian lumber. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. (In sense 1.) (a) lumber-cellar n. ΚΠ 1832 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 24 Mar. 59/2 Stone bottles..collected from all the lumber-cellars in the country. 1910 Daily Chron. 18 Jan. 3/4 A cramped and pokey lumber-cellar. lumber-closet n. ΚΠ 1854 M. S. Cummins Lamplighter v The former lumber-closet, now transformed into a really snug and comfortable bed-room. lumber-garret n. ΚΠ 1838 J. W. Croker in Croker Papers 1 Nov. (1884) II I should look with more expectation to the lumber garrets than to the muniment room. lumber-house n. cf. lumber-house n. ΚΠ 1720 in A. M. Davis Tracts Currency Mass. Bay (1902) 385 Hemp, Flax, Turpentine..to be stored up in the Lumber-house. 1728 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 175 A lumberhouse of Books in every head. 1806 M. L. Weems Lett. II. 356 T'other day..I found a box in the lumber house of a Gentleman at Columbia. 1899 H. B. Cushman Hist. Indians 162 A lumberhouse and granary, each 18 × 20 ft. lumber-office n. ΚΠ 1687 T. Brown Saints in Uproar in Wks. (1730) I. 82 Carry that..halbard to my lumber-office. lumber-place n. ΚΠ 1744 W. Cole in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 296 Laid up in a Lumber Place. lumber-raft n. (b) lumber-headed adj. ΚΠ 1818 T. G. Fessenden Ladies Monitor 38 I would not wish your pedant lumber-headed. 1891 J. C. Atkinson Last of Giant-killers 100 The usually lumber-headed old giants. b. (In sense 3.) (a) lumber-ark n. ΚΠ a1861 T. Winthrop Canoe & Saddle v. 83 It [sc. a river] signifies navigation, in birch-canoe, seventy-four, floating palace, dug-out, or lumber ark. lumber-boat n. ΚΠ 1902 Westm. Gaz. 28 Aug. 2/1 Flat, ugly, lumber-boats. lumber-box n. ΚΠ 1834 S. Smith Sel. Lett. Major Jack Downing 26 I want you to load up the old lumber-box..with bean poles. lumber-bush n. ΚΠ 1850 Knickerbocker Mag. 35 22 I had the misfortune to live in this town four years, my father having a lumber-bush there. lumber-business n. ΚΠ 1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 211 Husbandry..is much preferable to the lumber business. 1856 Trans. Mich. Agric. Soc. 7 827 The lumber business of the Saginaw river and its tributaries has been developed. 1896 15th Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1895–6 79 Gov. Woodbury has spent years as superintendent of the Burlington branch of J. R. Booth's gigantic lumber business. lumber-checker n. ΚΠ 1901 S. Merwin & H. K. Webster Calumet ‘K’ viii. 141 Max, who to Bannon was merely an unusually capable lumber-checker, was to Peterson a friend and adviser. lumber-cutter n. ΚΠ 1775 B. Romans Conc. Nat. Hist. E. & W. Florida 117 [They] planted their baronies in the pine barrens. There let the lords be lumber cutters! lumber-field n. ΚΠ 1881 Chicago Times 4 June Pineries, lumber-fields [etc.]. lumber-gang n. ΚΠ 1904 G. Stratton-Porter Freckles 354 He joined one of my lumber-gangs from the road. lumber industry n. ΚΠ 1889 Cent. Mag. Feb. 601/2 I've come here to write up the lumber industry. lumber-king n. ΚΠ 1889 W. H. Withrow Our own Country: Canada 372 One of the great lumber-kings of the country. 1918 Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. LIV. 321 Mr. Narcross, of Lowell (the ‘lumber-king’), hit the audience ‘between wind and water’ with a highly valuable array of facts. 1941 Yankee Dec. 19/3 They were..Anderton's lumber kings; so nobody minded their smelling strongly of horses, even in the Methodist basement. lumber-merchant n. ΚΠ 1789 Boston Directory 181 Dillaway, Samuel, lumber-merchant. 1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 23 The preacher..had been..a lumber-merchant. lumber-products n. lumber-raft n. lumber-sledge n. ΚΠ 1905 Westm. Gaz. 27 Jan. 7/2 A large number of coffins were laid upon a lumber-sledge. lumber-steamer n. lumber-trade n. ΚΠ 1816 Deb. Congr. 30 Jan. (1854) 809 A part of their fisheries and lumber trade gone..they are called upon by your tax-gatherers. 1840 Knickerbocker Mag. 16 217 The lumber-trade is a business which will be introduced the moment the resources in pine, of more southerly regions, are exhausted. 1874 2nd Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1873–4 161 The lumber trade of Quebec has been, and still is, very large. lumber-vessel n. ΚΠ 1835 J. H. Ingraham South-West I. iv. 51 These lumber vessels..are usually loaded with shingles, masts, spars, and boards. lumber-wharf n. ΚΠ 1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Lumber-wharf, a timber-yard. (b) lumber-laden adj. lumber-preparing adj. C2. Also lumberman n., lumber room n. lumber-act n. ? an act of parliament regulating the lumber-trade. ΚΠ 1721 in N. Bouton Provinc. Papers New-Hampsh. (1869) III. 834 A message to the house..for repealing the lumber Act. lumber baron n. U.S. a leading or wealthy timber merchant. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > merchant > [noun] > wealthy > in specific trade tobacco lord1832 railroad king1849 pork king1880 rum baron1887 lumber baron1888 tobacco baron1961 1888 N.Y. Life 18 Feb. 27/2 One of the..lumber ‘Barons’ of Michigan. 1889 E. Eggleston in Cent. Mag. Mar. 791/2 ‘Lumber barons’, ‘silver kings’ and creatures of railroad corporations. 1948 Time 29 Nov. 24/1 In many ways he seemed a throwback to the lumber barons, the cattle kings and the mining magnates who had ruled the West before him. lumber-camp n. a camp in which lumbermen dwell. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > camp or encampment > [noun] > type of ordu1673 chantier1823 douar1829 outcamp1844 log-camp1858 lumbering-camp1858 yayla1864 refugee camp1865 cow-camp1873 gypsyry1873 work camp1877 tent town1878 logging-camp1880 lumber-camp1882 town camp1885 base camp1887 line-camp1888 wanigan1890 isolation camp1891 tent village1899 sheep-camp1911 safari camp1912 jungle1914 transit camp1919 Siwash camp1922 health camp1925 tent city1934 fly camp1939 bivvy1961 1882 W. D. Howells Mod. Instance xxix, in Cent. Mag. Aug. 581/1 Down there in the lumber camp. lumber-carrier n. (a) a vessel employed in the lumber-trade; (b) a vehicle for carrying lumber. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other vehicles according to specific use > [noun] > vehicle for moving timber or heavy weights drug?a1549 drug cart?a1549 drug-carriage1665 tug1706 timber carriage1747 timber-tuga1800 janker1823 jinker1860 timber-cart1884 junker1885 lumber-carrier1928 straddle carrier1950 straddle truck1958 telehandler1982 1700 in N. Bouton Provinc. Papers New-Hampsh. (1869) III. 104 Coasting vessels and lumber carriers. 1928 Collier's 29 Dec. 5/4 On the left were rows of twenty-foot lumber piles, trams laid between them, and electric lumber carriers rolling on the trams. lumber-cart n. ? = jockey-cart n. at jockey n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1830 A. Cunningham Lives Brit. Painters (ed. 2) II. 228 He was stopt at Whetstone turnpike by a lumber or jockey cart. lumber jacket n. originally North American a warm jacket of the type worn by lumbermen. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > jacket > (suitable) for specific purpose cork-jacket1762 tea-jacket1887 stroller1901 sports jacket1912 bed-jacket1914 smoking1922 hacking jacket1935 safari jacket1938 lumber jacket1939 judogi1944 loafer1959 1939 These are our Lives (Federal Writers' Project, U.S.) 107 He was dressed in riding breeches and leather lumber-jacket. 1943 R.A.F. Jrnl. Aug. 16 They wore lumber jackets. 1953 S. Kauffmann Philanderer vii. 107 He went into the middle of the group and squatted next to Jake (he still remembered the smell of the woollen lumber-jacket). 1956 T. H. Raddall Wings of Night 70 I pulled on my old lumber jacket and went out to do the firewood chore. 1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 37 In its modern meaning, the lumber-jacket is very similar to an anorak. It is a short, straight jacket, reaching to the hips, with a centre-front fastening (usually zipped) and buckled at the sides to make it fit snugly. 1975 P. Somerville-Large Couch of Earth ix. 148 A black and red lumber-jacket, the sort American hunters wear. lumber-line n. a railway constructed primarily for carrying lumber. ΚΠ 1879 Lumberman's Gaz. 19 Nov. The ‘lumber lines’ are now getting their new cars ready. lumber-mill n. a sawmill for cutting up lumber. ΚΠ 1830 Deb. Congr. U.S. 11 Mar. 606/2 You will not find..such constant, unceasing labor as in our lumber mills. 1901 19th Cent. Oct. 550 Lumber mills, saw mills, grist mills. lumber-money n. a tax levied upon lumber. ΚΠ 1715 in N. Bouton Provinc. Papers New-Hampsh. (1868) II. 682 An account of the lumber mony and excise mony. lumber-port n. (a) a port-hole in the bow or stern of a ship for loading or unloading timber; (b) a seaport from which lumber is shipped. ΚΠ 1838 Yale Lit. Mag. 3 76 The pirates had knocked out the lumber port, with the intention of sinking her [sc. a ship]. 1883 Wheelman 1 333 Calais [in Maine], the great lumber port of this part of the country. lumber-raft n. a raft made of logs, boards, or the like. ΚΠ 1837 W. Jenkins Ohio Gazetteer 62 The Hockhocking river..furnishes..a downward navigation for flat boats and lumber rafts. 1898 Engin. Mag. 16 96 Lumber-rafts can easily be built. 1961 B. Fergusson Watery Maze v. 111 Irrawaddy lumber-rafts. lumber-scaler n. one who measures up timber. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > tree-crop > timber measurer scaler1887 lumber-scaler1896 1896 New York Weekly Witness 30 Dec. 13/1 A famous lumber-scaler. Categories » lumber-shover n. a labourer in a lumber-yard (slang). lumber town n. U.S. a town chiefly engaged in the timber trade. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > town with other industry or occupation mill town1491 mining townc1827 lumber town1880 cow-town1885 company town1907 1880 Harper's Mag. Aug. 354/1 A cheerful little lumber town lying high among the hills. 1904 S. E. White Blazed Trail Stories i. 3 The sawdust streets..of the lumber town were filled with people. 1972 R. Neely Sexton Women (1974) ii. 12 She had been..brought up in a lumber town..near the Oregon border. lumber-trade n. the trade in rough timber. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > specific types of trade > [noun] > trade in other specific articles pig market1647 lumber-trade1689 oilery1830 whale-trade1840 shoe-trade1850 nitrate trade1871 cannabusiness1980 1689 in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1825) 3rd Ser. I. 98 They are supplied..with the lumber trade. 1732 D. Dunbar Let. 25 Aug. in Cal. State Papers (Colonial Ser.) (1939) 201 The undertaker for the masting has and does carry on a greatr [sic] lumber trade than any man in N. Engld. 1884 S. E. Dawson Handbk. Canada 129 Quebec [city] is..the centre of the lumber-trade. 1963 Canada Month Nov. 22/1 The lumber trade furnished employment for thousands of lumber jacks, river drivers, and sailors. lumber tree n. a tree of importance as lumber. ΚΠ 1896 15th Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1895–6 81 The pine as a lumber tree is already a thing of the past. † lumber-troop n. Obsolete a convivial society of London citizens (dissolved in 1859), with a quasi-military organization, its president being styled the ‘colonel’; also allusively. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [noun] > convivial lumber-troop1745 The Senators1762 Pic-Nic Society1802 1745 E. Ward's Compl. Acc. Clubs (title page) A Compleat and Humorous Account of all the Remarkable Clubs and Societies in the Cities of London and Westminster, From the R—l-S—y down to the Lumber-Troop, &c. 1805 M. A. Shee Rhymes on Art (1806) 76 Dolts,..Pass muster in the lumber troop of Taste. lumber-trooper n. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > specific societies or organizations > [noun] > convivial > member of Sirenaic1616 lumber-trooperc1742 picnic1802 picnickian1802 c1742 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. II. 525 All other institutions, whether..Hiccubites, Lumber-Troopers, or Free-Masons. lumber-wagon n. North American a springless wagon of a type used for hauling lumber or for general transport (see also quot. 1962). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > cart or wagon for conveying goods > [noun] > types of > wagon (usually four-wheeled) > other types telega1579 trewerne1667 box wagon1825 lumber-wagon1831 morphoditea1852 Flanders wagon1855 1831 A. Stoddard Diary 30 Nov. in Michigan Hist. Mag. (1927) 11 472 Breakfast swallowed we stepped into our next rig, which was a lumber wagon drawn by two very good horses. 1842 M. Crawford Jrnl. 5 Left Buffalo at 11 o'clock in the morning in a lumber waggon on our way to the steam boat. 1849 N. P. Willis Rural Lett. xix. 165 So over the hills I jolted—three days and nights in springless lumber wagons. 1862 O. W. Norton Army Lett. 106 Great covered wagons as large as two of our lumber wagons. 1887 C. D. Warner Their Pilgrimage (1888) xiii. 288 At this season one meets them [sc. the hop-pickers] on all the roads driving from farm to farm in lumber wagons. 1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl 1 Gathered about the little village station in hard~seated lumber-wagons. 1961 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. 24 July 11/7 They forded the North Saskatchewan River in a lumber wagon. 1962 Amer. Speech 37 270 Lumber wagon, an old, broken-down automobile, particularly one that rides rough. lumber-wood n. a wood where lumber is cut. ΚΠ 1891 N.Y. Sun in Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. Nov. A man that works in the lumber-woods. lumber-yard n. North American a timber-yard. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > timber-yard timber-yard1482 wood-fold1570 lumber-yard1786 balk-yard1823 chantier1823 1786 Maryland Jrnl. 4 Apr. Lumber-yard, at the head of Baltimore Bason. 1818 H. B. Fearon Sketches Amer. 23 The timber, or (as the term is here) lumber yards, are not on that large and compact scale with which, in England, our friends C— and M— are familiar. 1835 Southern Lit. Messenger 1 291 Men of business delighted..in seeing the fine river obstructed by logs and slabs, and every corner wearing the appearance of a lumber-yard. 1851 C. Cist Sketches & Statistics Cincinnati 207 Connected with the machinery is a lumber yard. 1961 W. E. Greening Ottawa 108 The district close to the lumberyards was full of waterfront dives. 1973 C. Williams Man on Leash (1974) iv. 52 Lew was..running a lumberyard and building supply here. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online June 2022). lumbern.² Brit. /ˈlʌmbə/, U.S. /ˈləmbər/ Etymology: variant of Lombard n.¹ 1. †a. A pawnbroking establishment; = Lombard n.¹ 3. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > moneylending > [noun] > pawnshop Lombard1609 lumber1617 lumber-house1677 pawnshop1720 rumbo ken1724 pop-shop1772 spout1819 pawnbrokery1821 dolly-shop1851 pawn1868 hock-shop1871 poverty shop1948 1617 J. Minsheu Vocabularium Hispanicolatinum in Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas Mónte de piedád, a lumber or bancke to lend money for a yeare, for those that need, without interest. 1749 G. Murray Mem. George Baillie & Grisell Baillie (1822) 53 They put up the little plate they had..in the Lumber, which is pawning it. b. Phrases. to put to lumber: to put in pawn or pledge. to be in lumber (slang): to be imprisoned; also, to be in trouble. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > borrow money [verb (transitive)] > pawn to give (also have, lay, put, take) to pledgec1384 to set, put, lay to or in wedc1384 engage1525 pawn1570 to lay (up) in lavender1584 impawn1598 oppignorate1622 pignorate1623 dip1640 to put to lumber1671 vamp1699 pop1731 sweatc1800 spout1811 lumber1819 up the spout1819 hock1878 soak1882 to put away1887 society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > be imprisoned [verb (intransitive)] wake1338 to lie by ita1644 to be in lumber1819 fall1874 to partake of (or enjoy) His (or Her) Majesty's hospitality1894 to go down1906 the world > action or operation > adversity > be in adversity [verb (intransitive)] tholec897 pinea1225 steada1300 endure1340 to well in woea1350 labourc1450 concernc1592 to have a good (bad, etc.) time (of it, formerly on it)1647 to have the wind in one's face1649 to be on (also at) the receiving end1909 to feel the draught1925 to have (one's) ass in a sling1960 to be in lumber1965 1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ (at cited word) To put one's Clothes to Lumbar, pignori dare. 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) A man..sent to gaol is said to be lumbered, to be in lumber, or to be in Lombard-Street. 1963 ‘J. Prescot’ Case for Hearing viii. 125 My poor old dad was in and out of lumber all his life. 1965 A. Prior Interrogators xi. 202 We're out on a limb hoping for a confession, and if we don't get it we're in dead lumber. 1967 ‘M. Carroll’ Begotten Murder iv. 104 It rather looks to me as if someone is trying to get Susan in lumber. 1972 L. Henderson Cage until Tame vi. 43 I've got to keep at it. Break my bloody leg or something stupid like that and I'm in lumber. †2. Money due with respect to articles pawned. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > [noun] > act of pawning > money due on articles pawned lumbera1680 a1680 S. Butler On Critics 94 And, by an action falsely laid of Trover, The lumber for their proper goods recover. 3. slang. A house or room; spec. one where stolen property is hidden; a house used by criminals. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > other types of dwelling > [noun] > dwelling of specific types of people > of thieves or criminals denc1275 case?1536 ken1567 nest1617 lumber1753 1753 Discov. J. Poulter (ed. 2) 33 They pike up the Prancers, that is, go up Stairs, and fisk the Lumbers, that is, search the Rooms. 1789 G. Parker Life's Painter xiv. 129 Have you any body in the lumber behind the bar? 1789 G. Parker Life's Painter xv. 154 Lumber. A room. 1790 H. T. Potter Dict. Cant & Flash Lang. Lumber, a house convenient for the reception of swindlers, sharpers, and cheats. 1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 34 The polka is greatly in favour with the femmes of this lumber. 1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 74 His long room, or ‘slanging lumber’, is the scene of many a choice spree and downey movement. 1923 S. T. Felstead Underworld of London iii. 108 The proprietor of the ‘lumber’, where stolen property is stored pending a suitable buyer, also wants his whack. 1938 F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad xiv. 151 Her husband was taken into custody at a ‘lumber’ (hide-out for stolen property) in Walthamstow. 1950 R. Fabian Fabian of Yard xxxiv. 206 Lumber, address used by a prostitute for her profession only. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lumbern.³ Brit. /ˈlʌmbə/, U.S. /ˈləmbər/ Etymology: < lumber v.¹ A rumbling noise. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > [noun] > roll or rumble humblingc1384 bubblinga1398 hurlinga1398 grolling1398 rumblec1405 rumblingc1405 rolling1535 blumbering1556 roll1602 rumblement1604 grumblinga1616 lumbering1621 volutation1640 lumber1752 growlery1830 growl1833 growling1834 grumble1899 strumble1938 1752 W. Smith in Philos. Trans. 1749–50 (Royal Soc.) 46 729 One other Person..heard the Noise [of an earthquake], but judged it to be an odd Lumber above Stairs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lumbern.⁴ Brit. /ˈlʌmbə/, U.S. /ˈləmbər/, Scottish English /ˈlʌmbər/ Etymology: < lumber v.⁴ slang (chiefly Scottish). (a) Amorous or sexual play. (b) A person regarded as a prospective sexual partner; a casual pick-up, a date. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] playOE loveOE toucha1400 chamber workc1450 venery1497 bed-glee1582 bed-game1596 fiddling1622 twatting1893 sexual relations1897 fun time1905 massage1906 sex play1922 actionc1930 hanky-panky1939 making-out1957 lumber1966 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual partner > [noun] > prospective lumber1966 the mind > emotion > love > action of caressing > [noun] > instance of caressing > act or instance of amorous caressing playOE gamec1225 playingc1300 sportc1450 slap and tickle1928 lumber1966 the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun] > practice of going on dates > person with whom one has a date date1925 lumber1966 the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > state of being acquainted > acquaintance > chance acquaintance pickup1871 lumber1966 1966 P. Willmott Adolescent Boys E. London iii. 49 They would often try to move on from kissing to sexual play; as they put it, they..‘had a bit of lumber’. 1973 ‘J. Patrick’ Glasgow Gang Observed v. 56 I was roundly abused..for walking a girl home. ‘Yir lumber's a cow,’ they informed me. 1985 M. Munro Patter 43 We were at the jiggin last night; couldny get a lumber, but. 1987 Sunday Times 30 Aug. 21/5 She and her four companions—all from Scotland—end the evening in a disco where they wait for a lumber. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1997; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lumberv.¹ Brit. /ˈlʌmbə/, U.S. /ˈləmbər/ Etymology: Possibly two or more words may have coalesced. Middle English lomere may have been a frequentative formation on lome lame adj. With sense 2 compare Swedish dialect lomra to roar (Rietz). The word, however, may be partly of direct imitative formation in English. 1. intransitive. To move in a clumsy or blundering manner; in later use only, to move heavily on account of unwieldiness of bulk and mass. Now always with adverb complement. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > move progressively in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move heavily or clumsily lumberc1400 lumper1581 lob1819 hulka1825 c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1094 Summe lepre, summe lome, and lomerande blynde. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 586/1 I hoble, or halte, or lomber, as a horse dothe, je cloche. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 103 Let 'em not..lumber o're the Meads; or cross the Wood. View more context for this quotation 1728 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 248 Thy giddy dulness still shall lumber on. c1771 S. Foote Maid of Bath iii. 48 Hush!—I hear him lumbering in. 1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft iii. 100 The massive idol leapt lumbering from the carriage. 1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance viii. 76 We..were pretty well agreed as to the inexpediency of lumbering along with the old system any further. 1899 S. R. Crockett Kit Kennedy xxii. 153 ‘Ouch..!’ barked Royal lumbering outwards like a great pot-walloping elephant through the shallows. 1902 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 400/1 They lumbered to attention as I entered. 2. To rumble, make a rumbling noise. ? Obsolete exc. U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > [verb (intransitive)] > roll or rumble gothelec1290 gurlc1380 bubblea1398 wharc1400 rumblec1450 rolla1522 lumber?1527 jumble1530 thumble1584 humble1617 grumblea1625 strumble1645 growl1744 ?1527 J. Skelton Agaynste Comely Coystrowne He lumbryth on a lewde lewte roty bully Joy. Rumbyll downe tumbyll downe hey go now now. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 615/2 I lumber, I make a noyse above one's head... You lumbred so over my heed I coulde nat slepe. 1584 C. Robinson et al. Handefull Pleasant Delites (new ed.) (title of song) sig. Diii^v A proper new Dity..To the tune of Lumber me. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xvii. 643 A boisterous gust of wind Lumbering amongst it. 1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 486 Wee heard a noise..continuing with increase of lumbring. 1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 232 The lumbering of the wheels. 1855 J. E. Cooke Ellie 207 Keeping the footman lumberin at the knockers on both sides o' the street. 1890 Dial. Notes 1 65 ‘Listen how he lumbers’, said of a deep-mouthed dog's barking when he has treed a 'coon or 'possum. 1904 T. Watson Bethany (1920) 165 And he himself did not always know what he had on his mind until he pushed back his specs, and began to ‘lumber’ [= hold forth]. †3. transitive. ? To utter with a rumbling noise. Obsolete. ΚΠ a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. A.iv They lumber forth the lawe..Expoundyng out theyr clauses. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lumberv.² Brit. /ˈlʌmbə/, U.S. /ˈləmbər/ Etymology: < lumber n.¹ 1. a. transitive. Originally: to cover, fill up, or obstruct with lumber; to burden uselessly, encumber. Now usually: to leave (someone) with something unwanted or unpleasant; to get (someone) into trouble or difficulties; frequently passive. Said both of personal agents, and of the things which form the encumbrance. Sometimes with over, up. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill > to obstruction cumberc1394 encumberc1400 cloy1548 pester1548 accumberc1571 clog1586 to take up1587 lumber1642 over-clog1660 crowd1741 jama1865 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > hinder in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > encumber accumberc1275 encumberc1386 accloy1422 overlay1441 cumber1493 poister1523 pester1533 overgrowa1550 clog1564 cloy1564 aggravate1573 trasha1616 hamper1775 mither1847 lumber1861 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > hinder in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > encumber > burden > cause to fall as a burden (upon) devolve1601 saddle1729 lumber1924 to drop, throw, etc., (something) in someone's lap1962 1642 O. Sedgwick England's Preserv. 5 An indigested Thicket, lumbred all over with weedes. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 81 I hope it [sc. a chapel] will never be lumber'd again. 1798 Capt. Miller in Ld. Nelson Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VII. p. clviii We..sent our prisoners and their baggage which lumbered our guns, on board the Goliath. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 328 Empty bottles lumbered the bottom of every closet. 1825 Lockhart Let. in S. Smiles Publisher & Friends (1891) II. xxvii. 229 I..should be sorry to have them [sc. packages] lumbering your warehouses. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxix. 98 The decks were lumbered up with everything. 1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 49 There is no worse mistake than lumbering oneself with things that are never wanted. 1861 J. Tulloch Eng. Puritanism ii. 247 The mere details of controversy..lumber his style. 1866 W. D. Howells Venetian Life 148 I could not, in any honesty, lumber my pages with descriptions. 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xxxvii. 319 One side and two angles of the court are always lumbered with crates, hampers, and wooden cases. 1901 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 261 The ships of war were lumbered up with the soldiers. 1924 E. Wallace Room 13 i. 9 ‘If they lumbered you with the crime, it was because you was a mug,’ said Lal complacently. ‘That's what mugs are for—to be lumbered.’ 1951 A. Baron Rosie Hogarth iii. iv. 180 I suppose you're afraid... Of getting lumbered, eh? 1958 T. Hall in P. Gammond Decca Bk. Jazz xix. 233 Poor old Don Rendell..got really lumbered. He left his clarinet with Gee's with the proviso that it would be forfeited if the trousers and windcheaters weren't returned by the following Monday. Needless to say, they weren't. 1961 A. Simpson & R. Galton Four Hancock Scripts 35/2 Every time I travel on a train I get lumbered with a carriageful of the most miserable-looking bunch of face-aches you've ever seen in your life. 1964 G. Davis Friday before Bank Holiday i. 11 I want to realise on the cottage..but I'm lumbered unless I can find another home for Fiddler. 1968 J. Lock Lady Policeman xii. 113 I tell him I'm lumbered for court in the morning. b. intransitive. To lie as lumber. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up space [verb (intransitive)] > occupy obstructively lumber1850 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > become useless [verb (intransitive)] > lie uselessly lumber1850 1850 D. Macmillan in Life (1882) ii. 11 A queer mass of rubbish to lie lumbering in any one's brain. 2. To heap or place together as lumber, without order or method; to deposit as lumber. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > gather together [verb (transitive)] > crowd together > in a disorderly manner hoderc1330 clotter1537 pester1570 huddle1579 huddle1600 clutterc1610 lumber1678 the mind > possession > supply > storage > store [verb (transitive)] > without order lumber1733 1678 T. Rymer Trag. Last Age 41 In Rollo we meet with so much stuff lumberd together. 1733 D. Mallet Of Verbal Crit. 16 With all their refuse lumber'd in his head. 1805 M. A. Shee Rhymes on Art 369 How that [sc. picture], long..lumber'd in some filthy broker's stall, Lay, lost to fame. 3. a. intransitive. To perform the labour or carry on the business of cutting forest timber and preparing it for the market. occasionally transitive (North American). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > lumber [verb (intransitive)] lumber1809 1809 E. A. Kendall Trav. Northern Parts U.S. III. lxviii. 73 The verb to lumber has also the..sense, to procure or even to manufacture lumber. 1870 Maine Rep. 56 566 The plaintiff lumbered on his township called Holeb. 1891 R. A. Alger in Voice (N.Y.) 15 Oct. I..commenced lumbering in a small way. 1891 R. A. Alger in Voice (N.Y.) 15 Oct. We then lumbered a million and a quarter feet a year. 1893 Scribner's Mag. June 711/1 They bought and lumbered timber on their own account. b. transitive. To go over (ground) cutting the timber on it. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [verb (transitive)] > fell an area log1699 lumber1851 1831 Trans. Lit. & Hist. Soc. Quebec 2 269 His intention..was to clear land and lumber some.] 1851 J. F. W. Johnston Notes N. Amer. I. 52 We clean up two or three acres every year of the lumbered land (land from which the timber has been cut). 1871 R. L. Dashwood Chiploquorgan v. 60 This part of the country has never been ‘lumbered’, being too difficult of access. 1900 U.S. Dept. Agric. Yearbk. 365 The cut-over lands..which..have been lumbered heavily, not only for timber but also for fuel. 1971 Lebende Sprachen 16 9/2 This valley was lumbered in 1955. We lumbered more than a million acres last year. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lumberv.³ Brit. /ˈlʌmbə/, U.S. /ˈləmbər/ Etymology: < lumber n.² slang. transitive. To deposit (property) in pawn; hence (originally in passive), to put away privily, to imprison, arrest. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > borrowing money > borrow money [verb (transitive)] > pawn to give (also have, lay, put, take) to pledgec1384 to set, put, lay to or in wedc1384 engage1525 pawn1570 to lay (up) in lavender1584 impawn1598 oppignorate1622 pignorate1623 dip1640 to put to lumber1671 vamp1699 pop1731 sweatc1800 spout1811 lumber1819 up the spout1819 hock1878 soak1882 to put away1887 society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > arrest > [verb (transitive)] at-holda1230 attacha1325 resta1325 takec1330 arrest1393 restay?a1400 tachec1400 seisinc1425 to take upa1438 stowc1450 seize1471 to lay (also set, clap, etc.) (a person) by the heels?1515 deprehend1532 apprehend1548 nipa1566 upsnatcha1566 finger1572 to make stay of1572 embarge1585 cap1590 reprehend1598 prehenda1605 embar1647 nap1665 nab1686 bone1699 roast1699 do1784 touch1785 pinch1789 to pull up1799 grab1800 nick1806 pull1811 hobble1819 nail1823 nipper1823 bag1824 lag1847 tap1859 snaffle1860 to put the collar on1865 copper1872 to take in1878 lumber1882 to pick up1887 to pull in1893 lift1923 drag1924 to knock off1926 to put the sleeve on1930 bust1940 pop1960 vamp1970 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. (at cited word) To lumber any property, is to deposit it at a pawnbroker's..; to retire to any..private place, for a short time is called lumbering yourself. A man..sent to gaol is said to be lumbered. 1840 Fraser's Mag. 22 578 Revelling in the reminiscences of the number of times they have been lumbered. 1882 Sydney Slang Dict. 6/1 Lumber, to take or carry away to the lock-up. 1931 Police Jrnl. Oct. 501 Did the detective (busy) arrest (lumber) Jack? 1953 K. Tennant Joyful Condemned ii. 17 Don't you worry about the police. If there's a warrant out for you..they'll lumber you sooner or later. 1961 B. Crump Hang on a Minute Mate 136 We were sneaking into the church to bunk down last night when the johns lumbered us. 1970 M. Kenyon 100,000 Welcomes iv. 30 We're pros—twice in twelve years I've been lumbered... Only twice in twelve years screwing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lumberv.⁴ Brit. /ˈlʌmbə/, U.S. /ˈləmbər/, Scottish English /ˈlʌmbər/ Etymology: Of uncertain origin. slang (chiefly Scottish). (a) intransitive and transitive. To engage in amorous or sexual play (with); sometimes, to copulate (with). (b) transitive. To court, to chat up; to pick up. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] nighc1175 to come at ——a1398 sport1577 lumber1938 the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > court or woo [verb (transitive)] wooc1290 court1580 suitc1586 accourt1590 suitor1672 address1700 gallantize1728 philander1787 to stick up1830 spark1888 romance1931 lumber1938 the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse playOE to do (also work) one's kindc1225 bedc1315 couple1362 gendera1382 to go togetherc1390 to come togethera1398 meddlea1398 felterc1400 companya1425 swivec1440 japea1450 mellc1450 to have to do with (also mid, of, on)1474 engender1483 fuck?a1513 conversec1540 jostlec1540 confederate1557 coeate1576 jumble1582 mate1589 do1594 conjoin1597 grind1598 consortc1600 pair1603 to dance (a dance) between a pair of sheets1608 commix1610 cock1611 nibble1611 wap1611 bolstera1616 incorporate1622 truck1622 subagitate1623 occupya1626 minglec1630 copulate1632 fere1632 rut1637 joust1639 fanfreluche1653 carnalize1703 screw1725 pump1730 correspond1756 shag1770 hump1785 conjugate1790 diddle1879 to get some1889 fuckeec1890 jig-a-jig1896 perform1902 rabbit1919 jazz1920 sex1921 root1922 yentz1923 to make love1927 rock1931 mollock1932 to make (beautiful) music (together)1936 sleep1936 bang1937 lumber1938 to hop into bed (with)1951 to make out1951 ball1955 score1960 trick1965 to have it away1966 to roll in the hay1966 to get down1967 poontang1968 pork1968 shtup1969 shack1976 bonk1984 boink1985 the mind > emotion > love > action of caressing > caress or make a show of affection [verb (intransitive)] > caress sexually pet1921 lumber1938 the mind > emotion > love > love affair > have a love affair [verb (transitive)] > initiate a casual or sexual relationship (with) to pick up1672 lumber1938 to pick up1958 the mind > emotion > love > action of caressing > caress [verb (transitive)] > caress in order to excite sexually > engage in sexual caressing rifle1560 lumber1938 1938 G. Kersh Night & City iv. 53 All right,..I'm a ponce; they marry money. Zoë lumbers for a fiver; them women lumber for a million. 1960 Punch 9 Mar. 345/1 Many of us are chatting or lumbering (courting!). 1960 News Chron. 5 Mar. 5/1 When we talked about ‘lumbering’ they thought we meant making love... It means chatting, going steady. 1966 J. Gaskell All Neat in Black Stockings (1968) 96 The girl with fish-net stockings Tom brought back with him from Jersey and was still lumbering. 1981 A. Gray Lanark (1982) xvii. 173 ‘Last Friday I saw her being lumbered by a hardman up a close near the Denistoun Palais.’ ‘Lumbered?’ ‘Groped. Felt.’ 1985 M. Munro Patter 43 Ma pal got lumbered by your big brother. 1991 J. Kelman Burn (1992) 220 Derek slept with this woman a coupla years ago... He lumbered her from a pub up in London. 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