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English
Noun
lumbering (countable and uncountable, plural lumberings)
- The act of one who lumbers; heavy, clumsy movement.
1887, Hall Caine, The Deemster:Only the old harbor-master was there, singing out, as by duty bound, his lusty oaths at their lumberings.
- (US) The business of felling trees for lumber.
Translations
The business of felling trees for lumber
Adjective
lumbering (comparative more lumbering, superlative most lumbering)
- Clumsy or awkward.
- Heavy, slow and laborious; ponderous.
2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
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