[
UK
/lˈʌmbɐ/
]
[ US /ˈɫəmbɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫəmbɝ/ ]
NOUN
- an implement used in baseball by the batter
- the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
VERB
-
move heavily or clumsily
The heavy man lumbered across the room - cut lumber, as in woods and forests
How To Use lumber In A Sentence
- That call my slumbering life to wake to happy things. A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul
- It had been always understood, by watchful politicians, that the Repeal agitation slumbered only until the reinstalment of a Conservative administration. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
- He chased the unmigratory tropi-ducks from their shrewd-hidden nests, walked circumspectly among the crocodiles hauled out of water for slumber, and crept under the jungle-roof and spied upon the snow-white saucy cockatoos, the fierce ospreys, the heavy-flighted buzzards, the lories and kingfishers, and the absurdly garrulous little pygmy parrots. CHAPTER XV
- One minister counseled his people, let us do nothing to rekindle the slumbering fires of prejudice between the two races. A Renegade History of the United States
- The move "bedward" was almost simultaneous and the drift toward slumberland not far behind. Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes The Quest of a Summer Vacation
- We need to keep these plumbers and carpenters in business. Times, Sunday Times
- They are mounted through the holes in the sink using plumber's putty.
- We topped the rise, encountering more of that lumberman 's desolation on the other side.
- Cats were slumbering noisily beneath the TV set and a smallish party of utter strangers were drinking Harp in the saloon lounge. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
- A pipe clamp is really a necessary tool when using screws with roughcut lumber. Albloggerque
