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t 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.

Maine; -- a nickname.

One employed in lumbering, cutting, and getting logs from the forest for lumber; a lumberman. [U.S.] Lumberers have a notion that he (the woodpecker) is harmful to timber. Lowell.

The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber. [U.S.]

One who is engaged in lumbering as a business or employment. [U.S.]

A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently.

One who works in lead; esp., one who furnishes, fits, and repairs lead, iron, or glass pipes, and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage in buildings.

A pillow block.

The business of a plumber. [Obs.]

pecially, to sleep lightly; to doze. Piers Plowman. He that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. Ps. cxxi. 4.

One who slumbers; a sleeper.

In a slumbering manner.

Without slumber; sleepless.

Inviting slumber; soporiferous. "Pensive in the slumberous shade." Pope.

Sleepy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

deficient in understanding. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head. Pope.

A piece of wood placed on a lumberman's sled to sustain the end of heavy timbers. [Local, U.S.]

ground or spot on which tents, huts, etc., are erected for shelter, as for an army or for lumbermen, etc. Shzk.

coasts of the East and West Indies and South America. Modified forms are much used in the lumber regions of North America, and at life-saving stations.

Without defect or blemish, such as freckles or knots; as, a clear complexion; clear lumber.