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# lumber

«lumber» in Mova's school dictionary: **timber, wood cut and ready for building** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (no plural); verb (lumbers, lumbered, lumbering)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Lumber is timber, wood cut and ready for building. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lumber/#m1)

2) Lumber is old, useless things stored away. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lumber/#m2)

3) To lumber is to move heavily and clumsily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lumber/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a house is built from lumber brought by cart; oxen lumber off with a yoke

### examples

- The men carried lumber to build the barn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lumber/#x1)
- The attic was full of old lumber. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lumber/#x2)
- The bear lumbered off into the wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lumber/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lumber» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lumber/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.