LUMBER


Meaning of LUMBER in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ lʌmbə(r) ]

( lumbers, lumbering, lumbered)

1.

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

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

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

N-UNCOUNT

2.

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

He turned and lumbered back to his chair...

He looked straight ahead and overtook a lumbering lorry.

VERB : V adv / prep , V-ing

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