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lumber English

Meaning lumber meaning

What does lumber mean?
Definitions in simple English

lumber Noun

— Lumber is wood that is cut up into planks. The frame of the house is made of lumber.

lumber

— noun the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material — verb move heavily or clumsily The heavy man lumbered across the room — verb cut lumber, as in woods and forests — noun (= baseball bat) an implement used in baseball by the batter

Synonyms lumber synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as lumber?

lumber English » English

timber wood board log boards rubbish pound junk baseball bat stuff rumble plod floor converted timber chop down bole ballast work over whomp useless articles unwieldy truge trudge trash totter thrash stock stavewood split wood softwood sheet material shaped wood shamble scantlings sawnwood sawn wood sawn timber sawn goods sawed timber rummage ramshackle furniture plates planks plank piece of junk pick paste noise move ponderously logs

Topics lumber topics

What do people use lumber to talk about?
Work and occupation Occupation Working with wood

Wood
Physical actions Move Manner of movement

Walk
Work and occupation Occupation Working with wood

Lumbering

Conjugation lumber conjugation

How do you conjugate lumber?

lumber · verb

Examples lumber examples

How do I use lumber in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The vessel was loaded with coal, lumber, and so on.
Tom, this lumber, sat at one end of this sentence, while, too light to counterbalance him, on the other side, sat Mary.
The lumber is still green.
We need lumber to build a barn.
This is Brazilian lumber. One of the best kinds in the world.
Tom works in a lumber yard.
Cover that lumber with a tarp.
Good lumber is hard to find these days.
Where can I buy lumber and nails?

Movie subtitles

Lee had no idea what Wyatt wanted the lumber for. You know how men are.
My wife's father died and left her a narrow gauge railway. and a lumber mill and. several other things.
And lumber too.
I counted on you to help me start a lumber business and.
I don't know anything about the lumber business.
To help me start my lumber business.
Just keep the mill running and deliver my lumber when I want it.
I can keep the lumber business too?
You've been to the lumber office this afternoon.
Here he is, up in the lumber room, up in the lumber room!
I wondered what that fresh-cut lumber was for. Yes, sir.
Where are those lumber contracts?
From the hills, farms, lumber camps by boat or train, by horse and on foot.
I can't convince them he isn't a man-eater. Can't haul any more lumber for his bridge.
There's the mining company reports, the lumber company, and the railway.
Nora's father knew more about lumber and mines. than any man in this country.
I counted on you to help me start a lumber business and..
And do you know that Dr. Meade actually saw her. -.peddling lumber to Yankees herself?
It's from the finest lumber!
He shouldn't cut down trees for lumber.
Saw Jenkins at the lumber company.
That boat smashed into a barge loaded with lumber.
Sir, you posted an open invitation. to this gathering on every stick of lumber in the country.
The lumber yard will be reduced to ashes.

News and current affairs

Then there are the seemingly endless giveaways of national resources - from the free spectrum provided to broadcasters to the low royalties levied on mining companies to the subsidies to lumber companies.
Finally, the EU insists that Russia abolish planned prohibitive export tariffs on lumber.
Of course, it is not just oil prices that are high, but all commodity prices, from metals to food to lumber.
But when the people at the apex of these institutions insist that the crisis response went well, and that everything will be fine, even as the financial behemoths that caused the crisis lumber forward, their credibility inevitably suffers.
When we observe them, they appear to lumber along like holiday shoppers in a crowded store.
For example, in the US, the Engineering News Record Building Cost Index (which is based on prices of labor, concrete, steel, and lumber) has actually fallen relative to consumer prices over the past 30 years.

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