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lumbering1 n (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Forestry) Chiefly US and Canadian the business or trade of cutting, transporting, preparing, or selling timber lumbering2 adj
1. awkward in movement 2. moving with a rumbling sound lumberingly adv lumberingness n ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
lumbering adjective awkward, heavy, blundering, bumbling, hulking, unwieldy, ponderous, ungainly, elephantine, heavy-footed, lubberly He overtook a lumbering lorry. Translations lumbering1 [ˈlʌmbərɪŋ] N (US) → explotación f forestal lumbering2 [ˈlʌmbərɪŋ] ADJ [gait, run] → pesado, torpe lumbering1 adj cart → rumpelnd; elephant, person → trampelnd; bear → tapsig; tank → schwer, klobig; gait → schwerfällig lumbering2 n (US) → Holzfällen nt, → Holzfällerei f lumbering [ˈlʌmb/ərɪŋ] adj → goffo/a lumbering [ˈlʌmb/ərɪŋ] adj → goffo/a How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But the seaman of the last generation, brought into sympathy with the caravels of ancient time by his sailing-ship, their lineal descendant, cannot look upon those lumbering forms navigating the naive seas of ancient woodcuts without a feeling of surprise, of affectionate derision, envy, and admiration. I could then undo the lumbering padlocks with which our chains were fastened, whenever I might choose. So the guard of the Dover mail thought to himself, that Friday night in November, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, lumbering up Shooter's Hill, as he stood on his own particular perch behind the mail, beating his feet, and keeping an eye and a hand on the arm-chest before him, where a loaded blunderbuss lay at the top of six or eight loaded horse-pistols, deposited on a substratum of cutlass. |
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