lumber
Significat (Anglès)
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- Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material.
- Old furniture or other items that take up room, or are stored away.
- Useless or cumbrous material.
- (obsolete) A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
- (slang) A baseball bat.
- (slang) An erect penis.
Sinònims
converted timber
sawn timber
unwieldy
cut timber
forest products
split wood
shaped wood
be clumsy
sawed timber
useless articles
ramshackle furniture
sawnwood
sawn wood
carving wood
sheet material
move ponderously
sawn goods
truge
construction timber
Freqüència
Pronunciat com a (IPA)
/ˈlʌm.bə/
Etimologia (Anglès)
Exact origin unknown. The earliest recorded reference was to heavy, useless objects such as old, discarded furniture. Perhaps from the verb lumber in reference to meaning "awkward to move"; Online Etymological Dictionary thinks this may derive from the same root as lame. Possibly influenced by Lumbar, an obsolete variant of Lombard, the Italian immigrant class known for being pawnbrokers and money-lenders in early England.
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