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An early morning stroll at sunrise may lead to a surprise – a lumbering 150-year-old Galápagos tortoise searching for breakfast just outside your safari tent!
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Meanwhile, Microsoft was lumbering along with Windows XP.
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Marine Wildcats from Henderson Field tore into the lumbering Bettys.
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Sometime between 10,000 and 15,000 years ago, a giant ground sloth—a hairy, lumbering beast that weighed as much as a metric ton—wandered along a lakeshore in what is now southern New Mexico.
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As the red sun began descending toward the horizon, the massive animals lumbered across marshy Sedudu Island in the middle of the river, seemingly pondering a trip into Namibia.
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Federer took advantage by taking aim at lumbering giant’s left wing, accruing points by providing him with opportunities to err.
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This season’s man bag trend began at Prada, where men and women lumbered down the runway in Prada’s famous nylon activewear, famous nylon bags in tow.
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Suddenly, a snowmobile appears out of the darkness, headlight beaming, heading straight toward the lumbering shape.
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Origin and Etymology of lumber
Middle English lomeren
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First Known Use: 14th century
in the meaning defined at sense 1
See Words from the same yearDefinition of lumber
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: surplus or disused articles (such as furniture) that are stored away
2 a
: timber or logs especially when dressed for use
b
: any of various structural materials prepared in a form similar to lumber
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lumber
adjectiveExamples of lumber in a Sentence
He works for a lumber company.
had a clearout of all his old lumber and finally got rid of it
Recent Examples of lumber from the Web
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Meanwhile, inflation worries also cropped up in the latest survey from the National Association of Home Builders, which pointed to rising costs of lumber as a challenge to the residential construction industry.
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The cost of lumber has increased steadily, about 30 percent just in the last year.
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Image But the lumber remained intact on his third-inning single and his fifth-inning home run, a solo shot into the Yankees bullpen off Oakland starter Brett Anderson.
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Brush that is tangled, tied or that contains nails, metal, stones, vines, willow whips, root balls, stumps, plant material or lumber will not be collected.
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Dario Saric grabbed some of the lumber with 17 field goal attempts.
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Holding up a paint brush or package of batteries or excitedly extolling the virtues of a line of new sinks or cans of varnish, Ray Szmanda sold untold hammers, saws, drills and lumber to Menards customers throughout Wisconsin for years.
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Having lugged the lumber for a boat to Lake Lindeman on the Canadian side, Adney and his companions assembled their craft and hit the water on Oct. 5 with winter closing in.
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Kessler was supported by the big lumber of Orlando Baena and Ruben Gonzalez-Camero, each of whom blasted home runs.
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Origin and Etymology of lumber
perhaps from Lombard; from the use of pawnshops as storehouses of disused property
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First Known Use: 1552
in the meaning defined at sense 1
See Words from the same yearFirst Known Use of lumber
1642
LUMBER Defined for English Language Learners
lumber
Definition of lumber for English Language Learners
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: wooden boards or logs that have been sawed and cut for use
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: large objects that are no longer used or wanted
LUMBER Defined for Kids
Definition of lumber for Students
lumbered;
lumbering
: to move in a slow or awkward way
- An elephant lumbered along the road.
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