Lum″ber (?), n. [Prob. fr. Lombard, the Lombards being the money lenders and pawnbrokers of the Middle Ages. A lumber room was, according to Trench, originally a Lombard room, or room where the Lombard pawnbroker stored his pledges. See Lombard.] 1. A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
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.
Lumber kiln, a room in which timber or lumber is dried by artificial heat. — Lumber room, a room in which unused furniture or other lumber is kept. — Lumber wagon, a heavy rough wagon, without springs, used for general farmwork, etc.