Definition of "lumber" []

• Timber sawed into boards, planks, or other structural members of standard or specified length. (noun)
• Something useless or cumbersome. (noun)
• Chiefly British Miscellaneous stored articles. (noun)
• To cut down (trees) and prepare as marketable timber. (verb-transitive)
• To cut down the timber of. (verb-transitive)

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• "In times of common calamity God manifests his favour to the elect remnant; his jewels, which he will then make up; his peculiar treasure, which he will secure when the lumber is abandoned to the spoiler."
• "A new matrix enters the equation with the heavy increase in lumber prices, as today reported in the NY Times."
• "He had given it out, rather vaguely, that he needed the animals for sledding lumber from the mill to his sluices, and right here is where Sitka Charley demonstrated his fitness."