Definitions of lumber in English
noun
(1) The wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
(2) An implement used in baseball by the batter
verb
(1) Move heavily or clumsily,cut lumber, as in woods and forests,walk heavily,clumsily,burden
(2) Move heavily or clumsily
(3) Cut lumber
(4) as in woods and forests
(5) Walk heavily
(6) Clumsily
(7) Burden
Examples of lumber in English
(1) A lumber room
(2) Simple and inexpensive to build, our tree seat is made from standard size lumber .
(3) Some connectors are made for standard sizes of solid sawn lumber .
(4) He sat at a makeshift desk of unfinished lumber
(5) A local handyman would lumber past each day on his way from odd-job to odd-job, eying little twelve-year-old Laura with a smile and a hello.
(6) Natural beauty is integral to every piece of redwood lumber .
(7) He also sells lumber created from fallen trees on his own farm.
(8) The research showed they would later unfailingly lumber over to the farmers who gave them food and shun the others.
(9) Made with standard size lumber , and built from full-size plans, just a handful of common tools are required to build this project in a weekend.
(10) Born in Glasgow in 1850, he migrated at the age of four to Quebec, where his father built up a lucrative career in shipbuilding and lumber .
(11) In the face of devastation caused by widespread deforestation, some furniture makers are turning to alternative sources of lumber .
(12) Penetrating stains or preservative treatments are preferred for rough sawn lumber .
(13) Trucks steadily lumber across the bridge linking the countries, ferrying North Korean raw materials into China and Chinese manufactured goods to market in North Korea.
(14) A total of six ships have put in here asking for both furs and lumber in the past two months.
(15) You can frame raised beds with lumber or form unframed beds like ours by shaping soil into level, flat-sided mounds about 8 inches high.
(16) Or you can build a simple three or four side enclosure out of scrap lumber .
(17) The other two projects are simply made from standard-size lumber .
(18) The project calls only for standard size pine lumber that is readily available at your local home improvement center.
(19) The engineered beams span longer runs and withstand higher stresses than traditional sawn lumber .
(20) Pieces of lumber appeared, were carefully measured and then taken back to the workshop for fine tuning.
synonyms of lumber
timber
baseball bat
lurch
log
pound
Antonyms of lumber
Glide
Relieve
Unburden
Relieve
Unburden
