Lumber or lumber means wood cut into boards--
How many board feet of lumber will this tree provide?
He went to the lumber mill to buy some boards to make shelves.
Lumber also means to move clumsily or awkwardly, said of someone large or heavy--
Moviegoers watched the zombie lumber towards them in horrified fascination.
Lumbar or lumbar ( almost rhymes with lumber ) means the lower part of the back, or the five vertebrae above and below the waist--
He is being treated for pain in the lumbar region.
One of his lumbar vertebrae is causing the pain.
Now that you know that, you can say--
"His gait is an awkward lumber because of the pain in his lumbar region."
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