LekhoriLekhoriWood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material.
Here they live by fishing on the most plentiful coasts in the world; there they fell trees, by the sides of large rivers, for masts and lumber […].
Old furniture or other items that take up room, or are stored away.
On the ſecond day of my impriſonment, I was viſited by the duke of L——, a friend of my lord, who found me ſitting upon a trunk, in a poor little dining-room filled with lumber, and lighted with two bits of tallow-candle, which had been left over night.
Useless or cumbrous material.
The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, / With loads of learned lumber in his head,[…]
To move clumsily and heavily; to move slowly.
...he was only apprized of the arrival of the Monkbarns division by the gee-hupping of the postilion, as the post-chaise lumbered up behind him.
To load down with things, to fill, to encumber, to impose an unwanted burden on.
Exact origin unknown. The earliest recorded reference for the noun was to heavy, useless objects such as old, discarded furniture. Perhaps from the verb lumber in reference to meaning "awkward to move...
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They’ve lumbered me with all these suitcases.
To heap together in disorder.
so much stuff lumberd together