Definitions
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- n. The business of felling trees for lumber.
- adj. Clumsy or awkward.
- adj. Heavy, slow and laborious; ponderous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Awkward; cumbrous; heavy in action; encumbering.
- Rumbling.
- n. The business of cutting timber in a forest and preparing it for market.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adj. slow and laborious because of weight
- n. the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber
Etymologies
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Examples
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I am a huge fan of fast, movie style fiction, so the slow lumbering is too much for me.
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The buildings look animate, Elizabeth, as though they are about to begin lumbering forward — perhaps to scrape against the wires in order to remove the barnacles.
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Didn't you see the 263 word lumbering monster of a comment I painfully and needlessly deposited late yesterday evening.
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Conservative lumbering, which is the term used by foresters to designate the opposite of wasteful lumbering, will be described more fully later in this study.
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Before the eighteenth century is called lumbering, let us set a page of Hume against a page of Hobbes, or a passage out of Berkeley by a passage out of Selden.
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Brockman: Yes, well … Homer, organized labor has been called a lumbering dinosaur …
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In further bilingual fun, Lucille Ball on an old Jack Benny TV show (rerun Sept. 24, 1981) dubbed lumbering John Wayne "El Klutzo" [kluhts, var. of klots ` log '].
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The foot through the motel lifted off like some kind of lumbering rocket ship.
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A pretty big area of low pressure just kind of lumbering eastward; it's starting to get a little bit weaker, but it's bringing some rain towards the northeast.
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Commercial activities such as lumbering were also allowed.
GHibbs commented on the word lumbering
My adjectival use: 'The load was falling off the lumbering cart.'
August 22, 2011
lesle commented on the word lumbering
And your second choice, Barnaby?
My second choice is Maréchal, me voilà! by François Mitterand. In his unusually candid autobiography, the man who was to become President of France ruefully admits that if he had known how the Second World War was going to turn out, he would probably have chosen the other side. In a delightful postscript he writes that he now regrets lumbering the French taxpayer with the cost of running two households.
http://capeldunn.blogspot.com/2010/10/desert-island-books.html
October 22, 2010