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lumber room
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Lumber room
(gcide) | Lumber \Lum"ber\, n. [Prob. fr. Lombard, the Lombards being the
money lenders and pawnbrokers of the Middle Ages. A lumber
room was, according to Trench, originally a Lombard room, or
room where the Lombard pawnbroker stored his pledges. See
Lombard.]
1. A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in
pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. [Obs.]
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They put all the little plate they had in the
lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came.
--Lady Murray.
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2. Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky
and useless, or of small value.
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3. Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists,
boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is
smaller than heavy timber. [U.S.]
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Lumber kiln, a room in which timber or lumber is dried by
artificial heat. [U.S.]
Lumber room, a room in which unused furniture or other
lumber is kept. [U.S.]
Lumber wagon, a heavy rough wagon, without springs, used
for general farmwork, etc.
dimensional lumber, lumber, usually of pine, which is sold
as beams or planks having a specified nominal
cross-section, usually in inches, such a two-by-four,
two-by-six, four-by-four, etc.
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lumber room
(wn) | lumber room
n 1: a storeroom in a house where odds and ends can be stored
(especially furniture) |
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lumber room
(encz) | lumber room, n: |
lumber room
(wn) | lumber room
n 1: a storeroom in a house where odds and ends can be stored
(especially furniture) |
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