Noun He works for a lumber company. had a clearout of all his old lumber and finally got rid of it
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Verb
Starting tonight, more unsettled conditions will lumber into the region in the form of a few slow-moving frontal systems. Greg Porter, Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2022 Closer to the front, chunky Ukrainian military trucks lumber along the back roads, along with tractors and combines bringing in the harvest.New York Times, 4 Aug. 2022 Unlike football, rugby has no huddles, no platooning of special players, no time wasted watching huge linemen lumber to the line of scrimmage as a 40-second play clock winds down.Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2022 As with a host of products -- from computer chips to lumber -- the pandemic has snarled the supply chain for baby formula. Max Zahn, ABC News, 24 May 2022 Nowhere is that more important than in the Salang Pass, where, at over two miles high, thousands of trucks lumber through the jagged mountains every day.New York Times, 3 Apr. 2022 Within seconds, the rhino got up, turned around, and began to lumber toward our vehicle. Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 27 Feb. 2022 These glowing objects can be hit with Aloy's arrows to send rocks and lumber onto the battlefield... ... Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica, 14 Feb. 2022 But worrying signs have started to appear that these dynamics are not limited to lumber. Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 2 Feb. 2022
Noun
Trees have long been a thorny subject at Government Plaza since Stimpson, a lumber company executive, was elected mayor in 2013.al, 24 Aug. 2022 The train, which was carrying 142 people, struck the trailer, which was transporting lumber. Luz Lazo, Washington Post, 4 Aug. 2022 The standard gauge railroad was built in 1901 by the West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co., reaching Bald Knob to haul lumber to the mill located in Cass. Frederick N. Rasmussen, Baltimore Sun, 18 July 2022 The Virginia Creeper Trail is a former Native American footpath (once used by Daniel Boone) and early 1900s rail line whose steam engine trains once delivered lumber to thriving Virginia and North Carolina sawmills. Anne Olivia Bauso, Travel + Leisure, 31 May 2022 Some workers measure and saw lumber while others drill it into place, building a ramp to the front door. Kathleen Toner, CNN, 19 May 2022 With soil too stubborn for large-scale farming, most residents scrape out a living harvesting pine nuts each fall or collecting lumber from the forest to sell in the local market.New York Times, 30 Apr. 2022 The company re-engineered traditional lumber and created cross-laminated timber (CTL) that reduces carbon-intensive construction practices and the cost of labor. Saige Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Apr. 2022 My grandfather and dad worked at a lumber mill there. Werner Trieschmann, Arkansas Online, 7 Aug. 2022 See More
Word History
Etymology
Verb (1)
Middle English lomeren
Noun
perhaps from Lombard; from the use of pawnshops as storehouses of disused property