Lumber | Mean of lumber in English Dictionary

/ˈlʌmbɚ/

• Verb
• to move in a slow or awkward way
1. The parade lumbers through town once a year.
2. We saw an elephant lumbering along the road.
3. trucks lumbering [=rumbling] down the street
4. an animal with a lumbering gait
5. The economy continues to lumber along.
6. a big, lumbering [=slow and awkward] bureaucracy
• Noun
• wooden boards or logs that have been sawed and cut for use
1. trees turned into lumber [=timber]
2. He works for a lumber company.
3. the lumber industry
• large objects that are no longer used or wanted
1. had a clearout of all his old lumber and finally got rid of it
• Verb

• to cause (someone) to have (something unwanted or unpleasant)
1. His classmates lumbered him with [=saddled him with] an unfortunate nickname.
2. He's been lumbered with an unfortunate nickname.