Hypertext Webster Gateway: "lumbering"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lumber \Lum"ber\, b. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lumbered}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Lumbering}.]
1. To heap together in disorder. `` Stuff lumbered
together.'' --Rymer.
2. To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Lumbering \Lum"ber*ing\, n.
The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the
forest for lumber. [U.S.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
lumbering
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" [syn: {heavy}, {ponderous}]
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