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

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  1. n. A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn.
  2. n. Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.
  3. n. Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber.
  4. b. t. To heap together in disorder.
  5. b. t. To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.
  6. v. i. To move heavily, as if burdened.
  7. v. i. To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.
  8. v. i. To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.
  9. n. the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
  10. n. an implement used in baseball by the batter
  11. v. move heavily or clumsily
  12. v. cut lumber, as in woods and forests