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Recent Examples of lumber from the Web
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Investigators are probing how an agile U.S. warship, capable of speeds of more than 30 mph, loaded with nearly 300 crew members and equipped with some of the most advanced sensors in the world, managed to collide with a lumbering container ship.
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Investigators are probing how an agile U.S. warship, capable of speeds of more than 30 mph, loaded with nearly 300 crew members and equipped with some of the most advanced sensors in the world, managed to collide with a lumbering container ship.
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If grunge prized murky guitar textures, pounding drums and lumbering bass lines with attitudinally angsty shouting, other bands were making slightly more sensitive music.
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Just more than double that (16.1 seconds) is required for a quarter-mile pass, at which time the 450 is lumbering along at 86 mph.
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Dozens of homes are rising again; carpenters and masons swarm over them as trucks lumber up the curving lanes with building supplies.
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Lumbering up the path into practice on Tuesday was 16-year veteran defensive end Julius Peppers.
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Large amphibs, their hovercraft and lumbering armored troop carriers that take hours to wade ashore and unload would be punished by precision missiles, experts contend.
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That shift away from lumbering smokestack industries helped Tencent and Alibaba become China’s most valuable corporations, a stark contrast from just five years ago when no tech company even made the top 10.
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Origin and Etymology of lumber
Middle English lomeren
lumber
Definition of lumber
1 : surplus or disused articles (such as furniture) that are stored away
2a : timber or logs especially when dressed for useb : any of various structural materials prepared in a form similar to lumber
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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Anderson Hills UMC, the Living Church, and Parkside Christian Church helped serve the food and provided the funding for the lumber and building supplies.
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During World War I, President Wilson cited the country’s need for lumber and halved the monument in size.
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The new table took a weekend to construct, including a trip to a home center to hand-pick the lumber and buy fasteners.
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The U.S. earlier this year imposed duties on Canadian lumber, reigniting a longstanding dispute, and Trump has complained about Canadian protections for dairy farmers.
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There are photos of a 1925 track in Salem, New Hampshire, made entirely out of lumber and with 49-degree banks.
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Trump also hit Canada with a new tariff of as much as 24 percent on softwood lumber imports.
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Showtime’s revival of the cult classic created by Lynch and Mark Frost brought us back to the titular misty mountain lumber town that first captured our imagination 27 years ago this spring at the advent of the alt-culture ’90s.
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Irwin said the cargo included lumber, and steel coils.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'lumber'. Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Origin and Etymology of lumber
perhaps from Lombard; from the use of pawnshops as storehouses of disused property
lumber
Definition of lumber
lumbered
;lumbering
play \ˈləm-b(ə-)riŋ\transitive verb
1 : to clutter with or as if with lumber : encumber plan to lumber the tiny town with a giant ski resort — Marilyn Stasio
2 : to heap together in disorder
3 : to log and saw the timber of
intransitive verb
1 : to cut logs for lumber
2 : to saw logs into lumber for the market
Recent Examples of lumber from the Web
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Investigators are probing how an agile U.S. warship, capable of speeds of more than 30 mph, loaded with nearly 300 crew members and equipped with some of the most advanced sensors in the world, managed to collide with a lumbering container ship.
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Investigators are probing how an agile U.S. warship, capable of speeds of more than 30 mph, loaded with nearly 300 crew members and equipped with some of the most advanced sensors in the world, managed to collide with a lumbering container ship.
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If grunge prized murky guitar textures, pounding drums and lumbering bass lines with attitudinally angsty shouting, other bands were making slightly more sensitive music.
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Just more than double that (16.1 seconds) is required for a quarter-mile pass, at which time the 450 is lumbering along at 86 mph.
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Dozens of homes are rising again; carpenters and masons swarm over them as trucks lumber up the curving lanes with building supplies.
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Lumbering up the path into practice on Tuesday was 16-year veteran defensive end Julius Peppers.
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Large amphibs, their hovercraft and lumbering armored troop carriers that take hours to wade ashore and unload would be punished by precision missiles, experts contend.
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That shift away from lumbering smokestack industries helped Tencent and Alibaba become China’s most valuable corporations, a stark contrast from just five years ago when no tech company even made the top 10.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'lumber'. Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
First 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.
Definition of lumber for Students
: timber especially when sawed into boards
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