lumber
verb
[ ˈlʌmbə ]
• move in a slow, heavy, awkward way.
• "a truck lumbered past"
Similar:
lurch,
stumble,
shamble,
shuffle,
reel,
waddle,
trudge,
clump,
stump,
plod,
tramp,
walk heavily/clumsily,
stamp,
stomp,
thump,
thud,
bang,
sprauchle,
traik,
galumph,
Origin:
late Middle English lomere, perhaps symbolic of clumsy movement.
lumber
noun
• articles of furniture or other household items that are no longer useful and inconveniently take up storage space.
• "a lumber room"
Similar:
jumble,
clutter,
odds and ends,
bits and pieces,
bits and bobs,
rummage,
bric-a-brac,
oddments,
miscellanea,
sundries,
knick-knacks,
flotsam and jetsam,
cast-offs,
white elephants,
stuff,
things,
rejects,
trash,
refuse,
litter,
rubbish,
junk,
gubbins,
clobber,
odds and sods,
• timber sawn into rough planks or otherwise partly prepared.
• "he sat at a makeshift desk of unfinished lumber"
lumber
verb
• burden (someone) with something unwanted.
• "the banks do not want to be lumbered with a building that they cannot sell"
Similar:
burden,
saddle,
encumber,
hamper,
impose on,
load,
oppress,
trouble,
tax,
land,
dump something on someone,
• cut and prepare forest timber for transport and sale.
• "the woods there got lumbered down"
Origin:
mid 16th century: perhaps from lumber1; later associated with obsolete lumber ‘pawnbroker's shop’.
lumber
verb
• casually strike up a relationship with (a prospective sexual partner).
• "he lumbered her from a pub in London"
lumber
noun
• a person regarded as a prospective sexual partner.
• "they end the evening in a disco where they wait for a lumber"
Origin:
1960s: of unknown origin.
