Lumber

lum'ber, n. Orig., a pawnbroker's shop, a pledge or pawn; anything cumbrous; things thrown aside as usele ; timber sawed for use. — v. [lumbered (-berd), -Bering.] To heap together in disorder; to with lumber.— v. To move heavily, as if burdened; to rumble; to eut lumber and prepare for market. [Perh. the rooms where Lombard (F. G. Langbart, long-beard) merchants, or pawnbrokers, stored away pledges; perh. fr. G. rummel, a heap of iron scraps, etc., rummeln, to rumble D. rommeling, old furniture, rommelkamer, lumber room, rommelen, to rumble.] — Lum'berer, n. One employed in getting lumber from tbe forest.—Lumr ber-room, n. A room for usele things. Lumbrical, lum 'brik-al, a. (Anat.) Resembling a worm. [L. lumbricus, a worm.]