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   lumber

   /ˈlʌmbə/

   noun

   • 1. articles of furniture or other household items that are no longer useful and inconveniently take up storage space: British "a lumber room" Similar jumbleclutterodds and endsbits and piecesbits and bobsrummagebric-a-bracoddmentsmiscellaneasundriesknick-knacksflotsam and jetsamcast-offswhite elephantsstuffthingsrejectstrashrefuselitterrubbishinformal:junkgubbinsclobberodds and sods
   • 2. timber sawn into rough planks or otherwise partly prepared: North American "he sat at a makeshift desk of unfinished lumber" Similar timberwoodplanksplanking

   verb

   • 1. burden (someone) with something unwanted: informal British "the banks do not want to be lumbered with a building that they cannot sell"
   • 2. cut and prepare forest timber for transport and sale: North American "the woods there got lumbered down"

   Word Origin mid 16th century: perhaps from lumber1; later associated with obsolete lumber ‘pawnbroker's shop’.

   Scrabble Points: 10

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