单词 | lumber-room |
释义 | lumber-room [f. lumber n.1] A room for the reception of lumber or disused chattels.
1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. 132 My own little chapel, which has not been used for any thing but a lumber⁓room. 1812H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr., Baby's Debut, The chaise..Stood in the lumber room. 1884J. Hatton H. Irving's Impress. Amer. (ed. 2) I. 4 The apartments were lumber-rooms until lately. b. fig.
1748Chesterfield Lett. clx. (1792) II. 72 Many great readers..make lumber-rooms of their heads. 1827Hare Guesses Ser. ii. (1873) 446 The memory ought to be a store-room. Many turn theirs rather into a lumber-room. 1879J. A. H. Murray Address to Philol. Soc. 33 They are included by Lepsius in his provisional lumber-room of ‘Isolated Languages’. |

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