lumbering (n.)

  1. the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber

    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 , ponderous ]

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