Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - lumber
Lumber
lumber
1. v.intr. (usu. foll. by along, past, by, etc.) move in a slow clumsy noisy way. Derivatives lumbering adj. Etymology: ME lomere, perh. imit. 2. n. & v. --n. 1 disused articles of furniture etc. inconveniently taking up space. 2 useless or cumbersome objects. 3 US partly prepared timber. --v. 1 tr. a (usu. foll. by with) leave (a person etc.) with something unwanted or unpleasant (always lumbering me with the cleaning). b (as lumbered adj.) in an unwanted or inconvenient situation (afraid of being lumbered). 2 tr. (usu. foll. by together) heap or group together carelessly. 3 tr. (usu. foll. by up) obstruct. 4 intr. cut and prepare forest timber for transport. Phrases and idioms lumber-jacket a jacket, usu. of warm checked material, of the kind worn by lumberjacks. lumber-room a room where disused or cumbrous things are kept. Derivatives lumberer n. (in sense 4 of v.). lumbering n. (in sense 4 of v.). Etymology: perh. f. LUMBER(1): later assoc. with obs. lumber pawnbroker's shop
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I. intransitive verb (~ed; ~ing) Etymology: Middle English lomeren Date: 14th century to move ponderously, rumble, II. noun Etymology: perhaps from Lombard; from the use of pawnshops as storehouses of disused property Date: 1552 surplus or disused articles (as furniture) that are stored away, 2. timber or logs especially when dressed for use, any of various structural materials prepared in a form similar to ~, ~ adjective III. verb (~ed; ~ing) Date: 1642 transitive verb to clutter with or as if with ~ ; encumber , to heap together in disorder, to log and saw the timber of, intransitive verb to cut logs for ~, to saw logs into ~ for the market, ~er noun ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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