[ˈlʌmbə], (Verb)

Definitions:
- move in a slow, heavy, awkward way
(e.g: a truck lumbered past)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English lomere, perhaps symbolic of clumsy movement

[ˈlʌmbə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- articles of furniture or other household items that are no longer useful and inconveniently take up storage space
(e.g: a lumber room)

- timber sawn into rough planks or otherwise partly prepared
(e.g: he sat at a makeshift desk of unfinished lumber)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 16th century: perhaps from lumber; later associated with obsolete lumber ‘pawnbroker's shop’

[ˈlʌmbə], (Verb)

Definitions:
- burden (someone) with something unwanted
(e.g: the banks do not want to be lumbered with a building that they cannot sell)

- cut and prepare forest timber for transport and sale
(e.g: the woods there got lumbered down)


Phrases:

Origin:
mid 16th century: perhaps from lumber; later associated with obsolete lumber ‘pawnbroker's shop’

[ˈlʌmbə], (Verb)

Definitions:
- casually strike up a relationship with (a prospective sexual partner)
(e.g: he lumbered her from a pub in London)


Phrases:

Origin:
1960s: of unknown origin

[ˈlʌmbə], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a person regarded as a prospective sexual partner
(e.g: they end the evening in a disco where they wait for a lumber)


Phrases:

Origin:
1960s: of unknown origin