The wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material.

synonym: timber.

Roget 59: disorder; derangement etc. 61; irregularity; anomaly etc. (unconformity) 83; anarchy, anarchism; want of method; untidiness etc. adj.; disunion; discord etc. 24.    confusion; confusedness etc. adj.; mishmash, mix; disarray, jumble, huddle, litter, lumber; cahotage^†; farrago; mess, mash, muddle, muss [U.S.], hash, hodgepodge; hotch-potch^†, hotch-pot^†; imbroglio, chaos, omnium gatherum [Lat.], medley; mere mixture etc. 41; fortuitous concourse of atoms, disjecta membra [Lat.], rudis indigestaque moles [Lat.] [Ovid]. complexity etc. 59.1. turmoil; ferment etc. (agitation) 315; to-do, trouble, pudder^†, pother, row, rumble, disturbance, hubbub, convulsion, tumult, uproar, revolution, riot, rumpus, stour^†, scramble, brawl, fracas, rhubarb, fight, free-for-all, row, ruction, rumpus, embroilment, melee, spill and pelt, rough and tumble; whirlwind etc. 349; bear garden, Babel, Saturnalia, donnybrook, Donnybrook Fair, confusion worse confounded, most admired disorder, concordia discors [Lat.]; Bedlam, all hell broke loose; bull in a china shop; all the fat in the fire, diable a' quatre [Fr.], Devil to pay; pretty kettle of fish; pretty piece of work [Fr.], pretty piece of business [Fr.].    [legal terms] disorderly person; disorderly persons offence; misdemeanor.    [moral disorder] slattern, slut (libertine) 962.    ... show more

Roget 706: prevention, preclusion, obstruction, stoppage; embolus, embolism [Med.]; infarct [Med.]; interruption, interception, interclusion^†; hindrance, impedition^†; retardment^†, retardation; embarrassment, oppilation^†; coarctation^†, stricture, restriction; restraint etc. 751; inhibition etc. 761; blockade etc. (closure) 261.    interference, interposition; obtrusion; discouragement, discountenance.    impediment, let, obstacle, obstruction, knot, knag^†; check, hitch, contretemps, screw loose, grit in the oil.    bar, stile, barrier; [barrier to vehicles] turnstile, turnpike; gate, portcullis.    beaver dam; trocha^†; barricade etc. (defense) 717; wall, dead wall, sea wall, levee breakwater, groyne^†; bulkhead, block, buffer; stopper etc. 263; boom, dam, weir, burrock^†.    drawback, objection; stumbling-block, stumbling-stone; lion in the path, snag; snags and sawyers.    encumbrance, incumbrance^†; clog, skid, shoe, spoke; drag, drag chain, drag weight; stay, stop; preventive, prophylactic; load, burden, fardel^†, onus, millstone round one's neck, impedimenta; dead weight; lumber, pack; nightmare, Ephialtes^†, incubus, old man of the sea; remora.    difficulty etc. 704; insuperable etc. 471; obstacle; estoppel [Law]; ill wind; head wind etc. (opposition) 708; trammel, tether etc. (means of restraint) 752; hold back, counterpoise.    [person who hinders] damper, wet blanket, hinderer, marplot, killjoy; party pooper [Coll.]; party crasher, interloper.    trail of a red herring; opponent etc. 710.    ... show more

Roget 645: inutility; uselessness etc. adj.; inefficacy^†, futility; ineptitude, inaptitude; unsubservience^†; inadequacy etc. (insufficiency) 640; inefficiency, etc. (incompetence) 158; unskillfulness etc. 699; disservice; unfruitfulness etc. (unproductiveness).. 169; labor in vain, labor lost, labor of Sisyphus; lost trouble, lost labor; work of Penelope; sleeveless errand, wild goose chase, mere farce.    tautology etc. (repetition) 104; supererogation etc. (redundancy) 641.    vanitas vanitatum [Lat.], vanity, inanity, worthlessness, nugacity^†; triviality etc. (unimportance) 643.    caput mortuum [Lat.], waste paper, dead letter; blunt tool.    litter, rubbish, junk, lumber, odds and ends, cast-off clothes; button top; shoddy; rags, orts^†, trash, refuse, sweepings, scourings, offscourings^†, waste, rubble, debris, detritus; stubble, leavings; broken meat; dregs etc. (dirt) 653; weeds, tares; rubbish heap, dust hole; rudera^†, deads^†.    fruges consumere natus [Lat.] [Horace]. etc. (drone) 683 ... show more

Roget 636: stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry; spring; fount, fountain; well, wellspring; milch cow.    stock in trade, supply; heap etc. (collection) 72; treasure; reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche [Fr.].    crop, harvest, mow, vintage.    store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack; lumber; relay etc. (provision) 637.    storehouse, storeroom, storecloset^†; depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory^†, repertory; repertorium^†; promptuary^†, warehouse, entrepot [Fr.], magazine; buttery, larder, spence^†; garner, granary; cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom^†; thesaurus; bank etc. (treasury) 802; armory; arsenal; dock; gallery, museum, conservatory; menagery^†, menagerie.    reservoir, cistern, aljibar^†, tank, pond, mill pond; gasometer^†.    budget, quiver, bandolier, portfolio; coffer etc. (receptacle) 191.    conservation; storing etc. v.; storage.    ... show more

Dutch: hout, kaphout, dakbalk, ruw hout, timmerhout

An implement used in baseball by the batter.

synonym: baseball bat.

Dutch: honkbalknuppel
Polish: kij baseballowy

Move heavily or clumsily:
— The heavy man lumbered across the room.

synonym: pound.

Roget 706: hinder, impede, filibuster [U.S.], impedite^†, embarrass.    keep off, stave off, ward off; obviate; avert, antevert^†; turn aside, draw off, prevent, forefend, nip in the bud; retard, slacken, check, let; counteract, countercheck^†; preclude, debar, foreclose, estop [Law]; inhibit etc. 761; shackle etc. (restrain) 751; restrict.    obstruct, stop, stay, bar, bolt, lock; block, block up; choke off; belay, barricade; block the way, bar the way, stop the way; forelay^†; dam up etc. (close) 261; put on the brake etc. n.; scotch the wheel, lock the wheel, put a spoke in the wheel; put a stop to etc. 142; traverse, contravene; interrupt, intercept; oppose etc. 708; hedge in, hedge round; cut off; inerclude^†.    interpose, interfere, intermeddle etc. 682.    cramp, hamper; clog, clog the wheels; cumber; encumber, incumber; handicap; choke; saddle with, load with; overload, lay; lumber, trammel, tie one's hands, put to inconvenience; incommode, discommode; discompose; hustle, corner, drive into a corner.    run foul of, fall foul of; cross the path of, break in upon.    thwart, frustrate, disconcert, balk, foil; faze, feaze^†, feeze [U.S.]; baffle, snub, override, circumvent; defeat etc. 731; spike guns etc. (render useless) 645; spoil, mar, clip the wings of; cripple etc. (injure) 659; put an extinguisher on; damp; dishearten etc. (dissuade) 616; discountenance, throw cold water on, spoil sport; lay a wet blanket, throw a wet blanket on; cut the ground from under one, take the wind out of one's sails, undermine; be in the way of, stand in the way of; act as a drag; hang like a millstone round one's neck.    ... show more

Roget 275: move slowly etc. adv.; creep, crawl, lag, slug, drawl, linger, loiter, saunter; plod, trudge, stump along, lumber; trail, drag; dawdle etc. (be inactive) 683; grovel, worm one's way, steal along; job on, rub on, bundle on; toddle, waddle, wabble^†, slug, traipse, slouch, shuffle, halt, hobble, limp, caludicate^†, shamble; flag, falter, trotter, stagger; mince, step short; march in slow time, march in funeral procession; take one's time; hang fire etc. (be late) 133.    retard, relax; slacken, check, moderate, rein in, curb; reef; strike sail, shorten sail, take in sail; put on the drag, apply the brake; clip the wings; reduce the speed; slacken speed, slacken one's pace; lose ground.    ... show more

Cut lumber, as in woods and forests.

synonym: log.