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Lumbering

adjective

Slow and laborious because of weight. Synonyms: heavy, ponderous. "Moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot" , "Ponderous prehistoric beasts" , "A ponderous yawn"

noun

The trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber.

Lumber

verb

(past & past part. lumbered; pres. part. lumbering)

Move heavily or clumsily. Synonym: pound.

Cut lumber, as in woods and forests. Synonym: log.

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"Lumbering" Quotes from Famous Books

... shell in the shallows, rarely a patch could they touch; Always the take was so little, always the labour so much; Always they thought of the Islands held by the lumbering Dutch, ...

— Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses • Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson

... his primer to follow the hangman's lumbering cart up Tyburn Hill, and, still a mere imp of mischief, he would run the weary way from Kensington to Shoe Lane on the distant chance of a cock-fight. He was present, so he would relate in after years, when Sir Thomas Jermin's man put his famous trick upon the ...

— A Book of Scoundrels • Charles Whibley

... Skinner said; "but anyhow you can manage very well as we do. Make a hole in the sand and put your waterproof sheet into it, and there you have got as good a bath as anyone can want. What is the use of lumbering yourself up with things you do not want? Much better take those three bottles of brandy you have got left and a couple of pounds of tobacco. That is the utmost allowance I should give. The camels will have to go a long time without water, and the less you put ...

— The Dash for Khartoum - A Tale of Nile Expedition • George Alfred Henty

... hour, and perhaps less, you will see a pretty attack. Aren't we at their mercy?" Claverhouse pointed forward to the crest of a little hill over which the Dutch brigade were passing in marching formation, and backward to the lumbering train of baggage-wagons. ...

— Graham of Claverhouse • Ian Maclaren

... ashamed of this speech, despite the lumbering bombast of some of its sentences. All that made him estimable as a public man is contained in it,—the sentiment of nationality, and a clear sense of the only means by which the United States can remain a nation; namely, ...

— Famous Americans of Recent Times • James Parton

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