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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 lum·ber /ˈlʌmbɚ/
 木材,破舊傢俱,廢物,隆隆聲(vt.)砍伐木材,亂堆(vi.)伐木,喧鬧地向前走

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Lum·ber n.
 1. A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. [Obs.]
    They put all the little plate they had in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came.   --Lady Murray.
 2. Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.
 3. Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber. [U.S.]
 Lumber kiln, a room in which timber or lumber is dried by artificial heat. [U.S.]
 Lumber room, a room in which unused furniture or other lumber is kept. [U.S.]
 Lumber wagon, a heavy rough wagon, without springs, used for general farmwork, etc.
 dimensional lumber, lumber, usually of pine, which is sold as beams or planks having a specified nominal cross-section, usually in inches, such a two-by-four, two-by-six, four-by-four, etc.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Lum·ber, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lumbered p. pr. & vb. n. Lumbering.]
 1. To heap together in disorder. Stuff lumbered together.”
 2. To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Lum·ber, v. i.
 1. To move heavily, as if burdened.
 2.  To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.
 3. To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market. [U.S.]
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 lumber
      n 1: the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building
           material [syn: timber]
      2: an implement used in baseball by the batter [syn: baseball
         bat]
      v 1: move heavily or clumsily; "The heavy man lumbered across the
           room" [syn: pound]
      2: cut lumber, as in woods and forests [syn: log]