lumber
luhm ber
- n the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
- n an implement used in baseball by the batter
- v move heavily or clumsily
The heavy man lumbered across the room - v cut lumber, as in woods and forests
- A mighty pile of legislative lumber remained last week to be sawed by Congress before adjournment.
- Odd-sized chunks of lumber are laminated into beams with the strength (and half the weight) of steel.