Lumber vs. Timber

Lumbernoun

Wood intended as a building material.

Lumbernoun

(UK) Useless things that are stored away.

Lumbernoun

(obsolete) A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.

Lumbernoun

A baseball bat.

Lumberverb

(intransitive) To move clumsily and heavily; to move slowly.

Lumberverb

To load down with things, to fill, to encumber, to impose an unwanted burden on

Lumberverb

To heap together in disorder.

Lumberverb

To fill or encumber with lumber.

Lumbernoun

A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.

Lumbernoun

Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.

Lumbernoun

Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber.

Lumberverb

To heap together in disorder.

Lumberverb

To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.

Lumberverb

To move heavily, as if burdened.

Lumberverb

To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.

Lumberverb

To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.

Lumbernoun

the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material

Lumbernoun

an implement used in baseball by the batter

Lumberverb

move heavily or clumsily;

Lumberverb

cut lumber, as in woods and forests

Lumber

Lumber, also known as timber, is wood that has been processed into beams and planks, a stage in the process of wood production. Lumber is mainly used for structural purposes but has many other uses as well.

Timbernoun

(uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.

Timbernoun

Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.

Timbernoun

(countable) A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof.

Timbernoun

The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.

Timbernoun

(archaic) A certain quantity of fur skins (as of martens, ermines, sables, etc.) packed between boards; in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty. Also timmer, timbre.

Timberinterjection

Used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.

Timberverb

(transitive) To fit with timbers.

Timberverb

To construct, frame, build.

Timberverb

To light or land on a tree.

Timberverb

(obsolete) To make a nest.

Timberverb

(transitive) To surmount as a timber does.

Timbernoun

A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty; - called also timmer.

Timbernoun

The crest on a coat of arms.

Timbernoun

That sort of wood which is proper for buildings or for tools, utensils, furniture, carriages, fences, ships, and the like; - usually said of felled trees, but sometimes of those standing. Cf. Lumber, 3.

Timbernoun

The body, stem, or trunk of a tree.

Timbernoun

Fig.: Material for any structure.

Timbernoun

A single piece or squared stick of wood intended for building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding.

Timbernoun

Woods or forest; wooden land.

Timbernoun

A rib, or a curving piece of wood, branching outward from the keel and bending upward in a vertical direction. One timber is composed of several pieces united.

Timberverb

To surmount as a timber does.

Timberverb

To furnish with timber; - chiefly used in the past participle.

Timberverb

To light on a tree.

Timberverb

To make a nest.

Timbernoun

the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material

Timbernoun

a beam made of wood

Timbernoun

a post made of wood

Timbernoun

land that is covered with trees and shrubs

Timbernoun

(music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or musical sound);