LUMBER


Meaning of LUMBER in English

(~s, ~ing, ~ed)

1.

Lumber consists of trees and large pieces of wood that have been roughly cut up. (mainly AM)

It was made of soft ~, spruce by the look of it...

He was going to have to purchase all his ~ at full retail price.

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2.

If someone or something ~s from one place to another, they move there very slowly and clumsily.

He turned and ~ed back to his chair...

He looked straight ahead and overtook a ~ing lorry.

VERB: V adv/prep, V-ing

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