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lumbers

lumbers is the plural of timber.

lumbers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lumber.

Meaning of timber

Noun

timber (countable and uncountable, plural timbers)

  1. (uncountable) Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.
    • collect timber
    Synonyms:
    timberland, forest
  2. (US, uncountable, outside Canada) Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.
    Synonyms:
    lumber, wood
  3. (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.
    • the timbers of a ship
    Synonyms:
    beam, rafter
  4. Material for any structure.
  5. (informal) The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.
  6. (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.

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Meaning of lumber

Verb

lumber (third-person singular simple present lumbers, present participle lumbering, simple past and past participle lumbered)

  1. (intransitive) To move clumsily and heavily; to move slowly.
    • ...he was only apprized of the arrival of the Monkbarns division by the gee-hupping of the postilion, as the post-chaise lumbered up behind him.1816, [Walter Scott], The Antiquary. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and...
  2. (transitive) To load down with things, to fill, to encumber, to impose an unwanted burden on.
    • They’ve lumbered me with all these suitcases.
  3. To heap together in disorder.
    • so much stuff lumberd together1677, Thomas Rymer, The Tragedies of the Last Age Consider'd
  4. To fill or encumber with lumber.
    • to lumber up a room
  5. (obsolete, slang, transitive) To pawn (goods).

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Phrases with lumbers

Questions about lumbers

What is lumbers the plural of?
Lumbers is the plural of timber.

Words near lumbers in the dictionary

  1. lumbermen
  2. lumbermill
  3. lumbermills
  4. lumberroom
  5. lumberrooms
  6. lumbers
  7. lumbers with
  8. lumbersexual
  9. lumbersexuals
  10. lumbersome
  11. lumbersomely

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lumbers (page history and authors); timber (page history and authors); lumber (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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