2syllables
lumber
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Definitions oflumber
1noun
- Old furniture or other items that take up room, or are stored away.
- Useless or cumbrous material.
- A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
- Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material.
- A baseball bat.
1verb
- To move clumsily and heavily; to move slowly.
- (with with) To load down with things, to fill, to encumber, to impose an unwanted burden on
Example: "I got lumbered with that boring woman all afternoon."
- To heap together in disorder.
- To fill or encumber with lumber.
Example: "to lumber up a room"
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