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   Lum·ber

   /ˈləmbər/

   

   noun

   • 1. timber sawn into rough planks or otherwise partly prepared. North American Similar timberwoodplanksplanking
   • 2. articles of furniture or other household items that are no longer useful and inconveniently take up storage space: British "a lumber room" Similar jumbleclutterodds and endsbits and piecesbits and bobsrummagebric-a-bracoddmentsmiscellaneasundriesknickknacksflotsam and jetsamcastoffswhite elephantsstuffthingsrejectstrashrefuselitterrubbishinformal:junkgubbinsclobberodds and sods

   verb

   • 1. cut and prepare forest timber for transport and sale: North American "the woods there got lumbered down"
   • 2. burden (someone) with an unwanted responsibility, task, or set of circumstances. informal British

   Word Origin mid 16th century: perhaps from lumber1; later associated with obsolete lumber ‘pawnbroker's shop’.

   Scrabble Points: 10

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