Definition

1. Noun:

   • Wood prepared for use: The wood of trees that has been cut and processed into beams, planks, or boards for use in construction or carpentry.
   • Baseball bat: (Informal, chiefly North American) An implement, specifically a baseball bat, used by the batter.

2. Verb:

   • To cut and prepare timber: To cut down trees and process them into lumber (timber).
   • To move heavily: To move in a slow, heavy, and awkward manner.

Usage and Examples

• Noun (Wood):

  • The house was built from sturdy pine lumber.
  • We need to buy more lumber to finish the deck.

• Noun (Baseball bat):

  • He stepped up to the plate, gripping his lumber tightly.

• Verb (To cut timber):

  • They lumber the forest sustainably, planting new trees for each one cut.
  • The company lumbers thousands of acres each year.

• Verb (To move heavily):

  • The tired bear lumbered back to its cave.
  • He lumbered down the stairs with his heavy suitcase.

Advanced Usage

• "To be in lumber": (Informal, British) To be in a difficult or troublesome situation.
  • If you don't finish the report, you'll be in lumber with the boss.

Variants and Related Words

• Lumbering (noun): The trade or business of felling trees and preparing timber.
  • Lumbering is a major industry in the region.
• Lumbering (adjective): Moving in a slow, heavy, awkward way.
  • The elephant's lumbering gait shook the ground.
• Lumberjack (noun): A person who fells trees, cuts them into logs, or transports them.
• Lumberyard (noun): A place where lumber is stored and sold.
• Lumber room (noun): (Chiefly British) A room for storing unused or bulky items.

Synonyms

• Noun (Wood): Timber, planks, boards, wood.
• Verb (To move heavily): Plod, trudge, clump, stomp.

Related Phrasal Verbs

• Lumber with: (Informal) To burden someone with something unwanted or troublesome.
  • I got lumbered with organizing the office party again.

Related Idioms

• "Like a lumbering ox": Used to describe someone or something moving very clumsily and slowly.
  • In his oversized winter gear, he moved like a lumbering ox.

Noun

1. an implement used in baseball by the batter
2. the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material

Verb

1. cut lumber, as in woods and forests
2. move heavily or clumsily
   • The heavy man lumbered across the room