lumber

1. 1.

   move heavily or clumsily

   “The heavy man lumbered across the room”

   Synonymspound

   Broaderwalk
2. 2.

   cut lumber, as in woods and forests

   Synonymslog

   Broaderfell

Other forms of lumber

plural

lumbers·

past tense

lumberred·

present participle

lumberring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lumber

What does lumber mean?

lumber means "the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lumber?

lumber has 2 syllables: lum-ber. The stress falls on "lum". In IPA it is /ˈlʌmbɚ/.

What is another word for lumber?

Close synonyms include timber, baseball bat, pound, log. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lumber a common word?

lumber is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.