LUMBER

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LUMBER , a word now meaning (2) useless discarded furniture or other rubbish, particularly if of a bulky or heavy

character

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

; (2) timber, when roughly sawn or cut into logs or beams (see TIMBER); (3) as a verb, to make a loud rumbling noise, to move in a clumsy heavy way, also to burden with useless material, to encumber. " Lumber " and " lumber-

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

" were formerly used for a pawnbroker's shop, being in this sense a variant of " Lombard," a name

familiar

FAMILIAR (through the Fr. familier, from Lat. familiaris, of or belonging to the familia, family)

throughout Europe for a banker, money-changer or pawnbroker. This has frequently been taken to be the origin of the word in sense (I), the reference being to the

store

STORE (from O. Fr. estor or estoire,
Late
- LATE
Lat. staurum or instaurum, stock, provisions,
supply
- SUPPLY (through Fr. from Lat. supplere, to fill up)
, from the
late
- LATE
use of instaurare, to provide, properly to construct, renew, restore)

of unredeemed and unsaleable articles accumulating in pawnbrokers' shops. Skeat adopts this in preference to the connexion with " lumber " in sense (3), but thinks that the word may have been influenced by both sources (Etym.

Diet

DIET

., 1910), This word is probably of Scandinavian origin, and is cognate with a Swedish dialect word lomra, me fining " to roar," a frequentative of ljumma, " to make a noise." The

English

ENGLISH

word may be of native origin and merely onomatopoeic. The New

English

ENGLISH

Dictionary, though admitting the probability of the association with " Lombard," prefers the second proposed derivation. The application of the word to timber is of American origin; the New English Dictionary quotes from Suffolk (

Mass

.) Deeds of 2662" Freighted in Boston, with beames . . . boards ... and other lumber."

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