lumber

«lumber» in Mova's school dictionary: timber, wood cut and ready for building — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (no plural); verb (lumbers, lumbered, lumbering)

meaning for a pupil

1) Lumber is timber, wood cut and ready for building. tree →

2) Lumber is old, useless things stored away. tree →

3) To lumber is to move heavily and clumsily. tree →

sense in the lessons

in tales a house is built from lumber brought by cart; oxen lumber off with a yoke

examples

• The men carried lumber to build the barn. tree →
• The attic was full of old lumber. tree →
• The bear lumbered off into the wood. tree →

note

nothing for maths

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «lumber» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.