Definition of Lumber

raw cut timber beams

Examples of Lumber in a sentence

Environmentalists protested the lumberjacks’ actions because they were chopping down all the trees for their lumber.  🔊

Once the logging company finished the order, the workers would pile the lumber into a truck headed for the paper mill.  🔊

After the trees were chopped down, the logs were sawed, shaped, and sanded to become pieces of lumber.  🔊

The product was still considered lumber since it was a raw material, but it would become a wood product when it was transformed into a floorboard.  🔊

In order to make my deck, I headed to the area of Home Depot that carried lumber stacked neatly on the tall shelves.  🔊

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