1. lumber - Noun
2. lumber - Verb
A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.
Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber.
To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.
To move heavily, as if burdened.
To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.
To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put inside boxes. Dave Barry
Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber. Maxim Gorky
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head. Alexander Pope
In externals we advance with lightening express speed, in modes of thought and sympathy we lumber on in stage-coach fashion. Frances Willard
Dead we become the lumber of the world. John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
Stowed away in a Montreal lumber room The Discobolus standeth and turneth his face to the wall Dusty, cobweb-covered, maimed and set at naught, Beauty crieth in an attic and no man regardeth O God O Montreal. Samuel Butler (novelist)