Lumber vs. Lumbar: What's the Difference?

Timber sawed into boards, planks, or other structural members of standard or specified length.

Of, near, or situated in the part of the back and sides between the lowest ribs and the pelvis.

Something useless or cumbersome.

A lumbar artery, nerve, vertebra, or part.

Chiefly British Miscellaneous stored articles.

Related to the lower back or loin, specifically the five vertebrae between the rib cage and the pelvis.

To cut down (trees) and prepare as marketable timber.

(informal) The lumbar region.

To cut down the timber of.

A lumbar vertebra.

Chiefly British To clutter with or as if with unused articles.

Of, pertaining to, or near, the loins; as, the lumbar arteries.

To cut and prepare timber for marketing.

Of or relating to or near the part of the back between the ribs and the hipbones;

To walk or move clumsily or heavily.

To move with a rumbling noise.

(North America) Wood sawn into planks or otherwise prepared for sale or use, especially as a building material.

Old furniture or other items that take up room, or are stored away.

(figurative) Useless or cumbrous material.

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

A baseball bat.

An erect penis.

(intransitive) To move clumsily and heavily; to move slowly.

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

To heap together in disorder.

To fill or encumber with lumber.

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

Old or refuse household stuff; things cumbrous, or bulky and useless, or of small value.

Timber sawed or split into the form of beams, joists, boards, planks, staves, hoops, etc.; esp., that which is smaller than heavy timber.

To heap together in disorder.

To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.

To move heavily, as if burdened.

To make a sound as if moving heavily or clumsily; to rumble.

To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.

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

An implement used in baseball by the batter

Move heavily or clumsily;

Cut lumber, as in woods and forests