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[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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
153 Moby Thesaurus words for "lumbering":
Christmas tree farming, Latinate, afforestation, all thumbs,
ambling, ambulation, arboriculture, awkward, backpacking,
blunderheaded, blundering, bombastic, boorish, bulky, bumbling,
bungling, butterfingered, careless, cautious, circumspect,
claudicant, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cramped, crawling,
creeping, creeping like snail, cumbersome, cumbrous, deliberate,
easy, elephantine, faltering, fingers all thumbs, flagging,
foot-dragging, footing, footing it, footwork, forced,
forest management, forestation, forestry, formal, fumbling, gauche,
gawkish, gawky, gentle, going on foot, graceless, gradual, guinde,
halting, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy, heavy-handed, hiking,
hitchhiking, hitching, hobbled, hobbling, hoofing, hulking, hulky,
idle, indolent, inelegant, inept, inkhorn, labored, languid,
languorous, lazy, leaden, left-hand, left-handed, legwork,
leisurely, limping, logging, loutish, lubberly, lumpish, lumpy,
maladroit, marching, massive, massy, moderate, oafish,
pedestrianism, perambulation, poking, poky, pompous, ponderous,
reforestation, relaxed, reluctant, sauntering, sesquipedalian,
shuffling, silviculture, slack, sloppy, slothful, slow,
slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling,
slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced,
slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish,
snail-paced, snaillike, splay, staggering, stiff, stilted,
strolling, tentative, thumbing, thumbing a ride, toddling,
tortoiselike, tottering, tramping, treading, tree farming,
trudging, turgid, turtlelike, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful,
unhandy, unhurried, unwieldy, waddling, walking, woodcraft,
wooden