lumber ((n.))

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1†n.

rough-sawn or finished planks, boards, etc.

Quotations

1773

Lumber sold at £4, and fish at 16 shilling.

1889

They pulled it out and about 9 hundredweight of lumber with it.

1965

The formation of a company that will manufacture pre-fabricated homes in the United Kingdom with Canadian lumber has been announced.

2an.

logs, square timber, etc.

1811

The large returns heretofore made in lumber have occasioned an immense Quantity of goods to be poured into this Country. . . .

1836

In the summer it is a frequented harbor, and carries on a considerable trade in lumber, for so they characteristically call timber in this country.

1964

By 1913 about 125 million feet of lumber were floating down the St. John River.

2bn. — Obs.

in the lumber, engaged in lumbering (def. 2).

See: lumbering(def. 2)

1896

The Shiners were raftsmen, chiefly Irish, employed in the lumber, rough and ready for a conflict when mellowed with poteen.

3n. — Obs.

baggage; gear; belongings.

1804

The man carries his canoe, his gun and his medecine bag. The women and children must carry all the rest of their lumber.

1820

These [Indians] had only two canoes which contained most of their lumber.

4an. — Hockey, Slang

a hockey stick.

1963

. . . when he used to keep the lumber low they used to run right over the top of him.

4bn. — Hockey, Slang

lay on the lumber, check heavily with a hockey stick, legally or illegally.

1966

. . . they do not hesitate, as hockey men put it, to lay on the lumber.

1966

Lumley would lay the lumber on his own players, when they came into the goal crease.