lumbering

noun, adj — 4 senses

lumbering

noun

1

The act of one who lumbers; heavy, clumsy movement.

Only the old harbor-master was there, singing out, as by duty bound, his lusty oaths at their lumberings.1887, Hall Caine, The Deemster:

2

US The business of felling trees for lumber.

lumbering

adj

1

Clumsy or awkward.

I've kidnapped that lumbering fool Donkey Kong and you will never see him again. Har-har-har-har!1995, Rare, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Nintendo, →OCLC, SNES, scene: Pirate Panic:

2

Heavy, slow and laborious; ponderous.

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.2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:

Derived terms: lumberingly, lumberingness

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