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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber;


ADJECTIVE (1)

1. slow and laborious because of weight;
- Example: "the heavy tread of tired troops"
- Example: "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot"
- Example: "ponderous prehistoric beasts"
- Example: "a ponderous yawn"
[syn: heavy, lumbering, ponderous]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Lumbering \Lum"ber*ing\, n. The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber. [U.S.] [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Lumber \Lum"ber\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lumbered; p. pr. & vb. n. Lumbering.] 1. To heap together in disorder. " Stuff lumbered together." --Rymer. [1913 Webster] 2. To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

lumbering adj 1: slow and laborious because of weight; "the heavy tread of tired troops"; "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot"; "ponderous prehistoric beasts"; "a ponderous yawn" [syn: heavy, lumbering, ponderous] n 1: the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber