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Lumber


LUM'BER, noun

1. Any thing useless and cumbersome, or things bulky and thrown aside as of no use.

The very bed was violated - and thrown among the common lumber

2. In America, timber sawed or split for use; as beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops and the like.

3. Harm; mischief. [Local.]

LUM'BER, verb transitive

1. To heap together in disorder.

2. To fill with lumber; as, to lumber a room.