lumber

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

LUM'BER, noun 1. Any thing useless and cumbersome, or things bulky and thrown aside as of no use. The very bed was violated - and thrown among the common lumber 2. In America, timber sawed or split for use; as beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops and the like. 3. Harm; mischief. [Local.] LUM'BER, verb transitive 1. To heap together in disorder. 2. To fill with lumber; as, to lumber a room.
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