About The Word Lumbering

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Lumbering

Lumbering Meaning & Definition
Lumbering Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Lumbering?

[n] the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber
[adj] 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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Lumbering: heavy | heavy-footed | ponderous

Related Terms | Find terms related to Lumbering: afforestation | all thumbs | ambling | ambulation | arboriculture | awkward | backpacking | blunderheaded | blundering | bombastic | boorish | bulky | bumbling | bungling | butterfingered | careless | cautious | Christmas tree farming | 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 | Latinate | 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 | snaillike | snail-paced | 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

See Also | craft | trade

Lumbering In Webster's Dictionary

\Lum"ber*ing\, n. The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber. [U.S.]

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