English Dictionary

lumber

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈlʌm.bə/

名詞

カナダ英語 アメリカ英語 不可算名詞 通常 古語 比喩的用法 廃用 俗語 卑語

(Canada, US) Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material. / (now rare) Old furniture or other items that take up room, or are stored away.

日本語の意味

建築材料として利用されるために板状に加工された木材 / （現代では稀）部屋を占有する、保管される古い家具やその他の物

We bought enough lumber to build a small deck over the weekend.

週末に小さなデッキを作るのに十分な材木を買いました。

意味（1）

(Canada, US) Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material.

Here they live by fishing on the most plentiful coasts in the world; there they fell trees, by the sides of large rivers, for masts and lumber […] .

意味（2）

(now rare) Old furniture or other items that take up room, or are stored away.

I was visited by the duke of L—, a friend of my lord, who found me sitting upon a trunk, in a poor little dining-room filled with lumber, and lighted with two bits of tallow-candle, which had been left over night.

意味（3）

(figuratively) Useless or cumbrous material.

The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, / With loads of learned lumber in his head,[…]

意味（4）

(obsolete) A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.

They put all the little plate they had […] in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came.

意味（5）

(baseball, slang) A baseball bat.

意味（6）

(vulgar, slang) An erect penis.

lumbers （ plural ）