What is the meaning of lumbering?

noun

  • The trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber.

verb

  • Move heavily or clumsily.
    • usage: "The heavy man lumbered across the room"
  • Cut lumber, as in woods and forests.

adjective

  • Slow and laborious because of weight.
    • usage: "the heavy tread of tired troops"; "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot"; "ponderous prehistoric beasts"; "a ponderous yawn"
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APAWordNet. (2010). lumbering. Retrieved September 20, 2026, from http://smartdefine.org/lumbering/definitions/1177862
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