Lumber
Lumber — raw timber, stacked and unworked — often touches many difficult tasks for little reward, though burning piles can mean unexpected profit. The dream may ask what heavy, thankless labour is before you, and whether the rough material of your effort will yield gain or simply more toil.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for lumber, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
To dream of lumber, denotes many difficult tasks and but little remuneration or pleasure.
To see piles of lumber burning, indicates profit from an unexpected source.
To dream of sawing lumber, denotes unwise transactions and unhappiness.