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lumber
English
Etymology
Exact origin unknown. The earliest recorded reference was to heavy, useless objects such as old, discarded furniture. Perhaps from the verb lumber in reference to meaning "awkward to move". Possibly influenced by Lumbar, an obsolete variant of Lombard, the Italian immigrant class known for being pawnbrokers and money-lenders in early England.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: l?m?b? IPA(key): /?l?m.b?/
- (US) enPR: l?m?b?r IPA(key): /?l?m.b?/
- Rhymes: -?mb?(r)
Noun
lumber (usually uncountable, plural lumbers)
- (now rare) Old furniture or other items that take up room, or are stored away. [from 16th c.]
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. III, ch. 88:
- 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.
- 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. III, ch. 88:
- (figuratively) Useless or cumbrous material. [from 17th c.]
- 1711, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism:
- The bookful blockhead ignorantly read, / With loads of learned lumber in his head, […]
- 1711, Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism:
- (obsolete) A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. [17th–18th c.]
- a. 1746, Lady Grisell Baillie Murray, Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie
- They put all the little plate they had […] in the lumber, which is pawning it, till the ships came.
- a. 1746, Lady Grisell Baillie Murray, Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of the Right Honourable George Baillie
- (Canada, US) Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material. [from 17th c.]
- 1782, H. de Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer:
- 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 […] .
- 1883, Chester A. Arthur, Third State of the Union Address, 4 December:
- The resources of Alaska, especially in fur, mines, and lumber, are considerable in extent and capable of large development, while its geographical situation is one of political and commercial importance.;
- 1782, H. de Crèvecoeur, Letters from an American Farmer:
- (baseball, slang) A baseball bat.
Synonyms
- timber
- wood
Translations
Verb
lumber (third-person singular simple present lumbers, present participle lumbering, simple past and past participle lumbered)
- (intransitive) To move clumsily and heavily; to move slowly.
- 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary
- ...he was only apprized of the arrival of the Monkbarns division by the gee-hupping of the postilion, as the post-chaise lumbered up behind him.
- 2002, Russell Allen, "Incantations of the Apprentice", on Symphony X, The Odyssey.
- 1816, Sir Walter Scott, The Antiquary
- (transitive, with with) To load down with things, to fill, to encumber, to impose an unwanted burden on
- To heap together in disorder.
- 1677, Thomas Rymer, The Tragedies of the Last Age Consider'd
- so much stuff lumberd together
- 1677, Thomas Rymer, The Tragedies of the Last Age Consider'd
- To fill or encumber with lumber.
Related terms
- lumbering
- lumberingness
Translations
Anagrams
- Blumer, Bulmer, Rumble, rumble, umbrel
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stagger
English
Etymology
From Middle English stageren, stakeren, from Old Norse stakra (“to push, stagger”). Cognate with dialectal Danish stagre.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?stæ??/?
- (US) IPA(key): /?stæ??/
- Rhymes: -æ??(r)
Noun
stagger (plural staggers)
- An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion
- 7 October 2012, Paolo Bandini in The Guardian, Denver Broncos 21 New England Patriots 31 - as it happened
- Put down the rosary beads folks, I believe hell may just have frozen over. Peyton Manning drops back, sees nothing open and runs for a first down. If you can call that running. More like the stagger of a wounded rhino. Did the job, though
- 1861, Ellen Wood, East Lynne Chapter 39
- Afy slowly gathered in the sense of the words. She gasped twice, as if her breath had gone, and then, with a stagger and a shiver, fell heavily to the ground.
- 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol Stave 2
- And when old Fezziwig and Mrs. Fezziwig had gone all through the dance; advance and retire; both hands to your partner, bow and courtesy, corkscrew, thread the needle, and back again to your place; Fezziwig "cut"—cut so deftly that he appeared to wink with his legs, and came upon his feet again without a stagger.
- 7 October 2012, Paolo Bandini in The Guardian, Denver Broncos 21 New England Patriots 31 - as it happened
- (veterinary medicine) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling, unsteady gait or sudden falling
- Bewilderment; perplexity.
- The spacing out of various actions over time.
- 19 April 2016, Rachel Roddy in The Guardian, Rachel Roddy’s Roman spring vegetable stew recipe
- I don’t include cured pork, although it is very nice, and rather than putting everything in the pan at once I prefer a stagger of ingredients, which ensures each one gets the right amount of time.
- 19 April 2016, Rachel Roddy in The Guardian, Rachel Roddy’s Roman spring vegetable stew recipe
- (motor racing) The difference in circumference between the left and right tires on a racing vehicle. It is used on oval tracks to make the car turn better in the corners.
- (aviation) The horizontal positioning of a biplane, triplane, or multiplane's wings in relation to one another.
Translations
Verb
stagger (third-person singular simple present staggers, present participle staggering, simple past and past participle staggered)
- Sway unsteadily, reel, or totter.
- (intransitive) In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
- She began to stagger across the room.
- Deep was the wound; he staggered with the blow.
- (transitive) To cause to reel or totter.
- The powerful blow of his opponent's fist staggered the boxer.
- (intransitive) To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
- 1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation
- The enemy staggers.
- 1708, Joseph Addison, The Present State of the War, and the Necessity of an Augmentation
- (intransitive) In standing or walking, to sway from one side to the other as if about to fall; to stand or walk unsteadily; to reel or totter.
- Doubt, waver, be shocked.
- (intransitive) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
- He [Abraham] staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief.
- (transitive) To cause to doubt and waver; to make to hesitate; to make less steady or confident; to shock.
- He will stagger the committee when he presents his report.
- 1640, James Howell, England's Teares for the present Warres
- whosoever will be curious to read the future story of this intricate war , if it be possible to compile a story of it , he will find himself much staggered.
- 1796, Edmund Burke, a letter to a noble lord
- Grants to the house of Russell were so enormous, as not only to outrage economy, but even to stagger credibility.
- (intransitive) To begin to doubt and waver in purposes; to become less confident or determined; to hesitate.
- (transitive) Have multiple groups doing the same thing in a uniform fashion, but starting at different, evenly-spaced, times or places (attested from 1856).
- To arrange (a series of parts) on each side of a median line alternately, as the spokes of a wheel or the rivets of a boiler seam.
- To arrange similar objects such that each is ahead or above and to one side of the next.
- We will stagger the starting positions for the race on the oval track.
- To schedule in intervals.
- We will stagger the run so the faster runners can go first, then the joggers.
Translations
See also
- bestagger
- staggeringly
- staggers
References
Anagrams
- gagster, gargets, taggers
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