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