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Entry 8 senses · 3 variants Webster, 1913

Lumber

/lŭmʹbər/ · Lum·ber · IPA /ˈlʌm.bɚ/
01 n. A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
  1. 1.
    A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.[Obs.]
    “They put all the little plate they had in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came.” — Lady Murray.
  2. 2.
    Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.
  3. 3.
    Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber.[U.S.]
Phrases & compounds
Lumber kiln — a room in which timber or lumber is dried by artificial heat.
Lumber room — a room in which unused furniture or other lumber is kept.
Lumber wagon — a heavy rough wagon, without springs, used for general farmwork, etc.
dimensional lumber — lumber, usually of pine, which is sold as beams or planks having a specified nominal cross-section, usually in inches, such a two-by-four, two-by-six, four-by-four, etc.
02 v. t. To heap together in disorder.
imp. & p. p. Lumbered; p. pr. & vb. n. Lumbering
  1. 1.
    To heap together in disorder.
  2. 2.
    To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.
03 v. i. To move heavily, as if burdened.
  1. 1.
    To move heavily, as if burdened.
  2. 2.
    To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.
  3. 3.
    To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.[U.S.]