lumber
/ˈlʌm.bɚ/ verb C2- To move clumsily and heavily; to move slowly.
- To load down with things, to fill, to encumber, to impose an unwanted burden on. · They’ve lumbered me with all these suitcases.· I got lumbered with that boring woman all afternoon.
- To heap together in disorder.
- To fill or encumber with lumber. · to lumber up a room
He/she/it lumbers · Past lumbered · Past participle lumbered · -ing form lumbering
Verb forms
- Base form
- lumber
- He/she/it
- lumbers
- Past
- lumbered
- Past participle
- lumbered
- -ing form
- lumbering
From the library
Mice among the lumber.
“I believe we have one or two left over,” she said, “but they’re upstairs in the lumber room.
Their house was small, for the lumber to build it had to be carried by wagon many miles.
Holmes spent the evening in rummaging among the files of the old daily papers with which one of our lumber-rooms was packed.
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