The difference between Lumber and Timber

When used as nouns, lumber means wood intended as a building material, whereas timber means trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.

When used as verbs, lumber means to move clumsily and heavily, whereas timber means to fit with timbers.


Timber is also interjection with the meaning: used by loggers to warn others that a tree being felled is falling.

check bellow for the other definitions of Lumber and Timber

  1. Lumber as a noun (North America, uncountable):

    Wood intended as a building material.

  2. Lumber as a noun (UK):

    Useless things that are stored away.

  3. Lumber as a noun (obsolete):

    A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.

  4. Lumber as a noun (baseball, slang):

    A baseball bat.

  1. Lumber as a verb (intransitive):

    To move clumsily and heavily; to move slowly.

  2. Lumber as a verb (transitive, with ''with''):

    To load down with things, to fill, to encumber, to impose an unwanted burden on

    Examples:

    "They’ve lumbered me with all these suitcases."

    "I got lumbered with that boring woman all afternoon."

  3. Lumber as a verb:

    To heap together in disorder.

  4. Lumber as a verb:

    To fill or encumber with lumber.

    Examples:

    "to lumber up a room"

  1. Timber as a noun (uncountable):

    Trees in a forest regarded as a source of wood.

  2. Timber as a noun (outside, North America, uncountable):

    Wood that has been pre-cut and is ready for use in construction.

  3. Timber as a noun (countable):

    A heavy wooden beam, generally a whole log that has been squared off and used to provide heavy support for something such as a roof.

    Examples:

    "the timbers of a ship"

  4. Timber as a noun:

    Material for any structure.

  5. Timber as a noun (firearms, informal):

    The wooden stock of a rifle or shotgun.

  6. Timber as a noun (archaic):

    A certain quantity of fur skins (as of martens, ermines, sables, etc.) packed between boards; in some cases forty skins, in others one hundred and twenty. Also timmer, timbre.

  1. Timber as a verb (transitive):

    To fit with timbers.

    Examples:

    "timbering a roof"

  2. Timber as a verb (transitive, obsolete):

    To construct, frame, build.

  3. Timber as a verb (falconry, intransitive):

    To light or land on a tree.

  4. Timber as a verb (obsolete):

    To make a nest.

  5. Timber as a verb (transitive):

    To surmount as a timber does.

  1. Timber as a noun:

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