lumbering

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lumbering

noun lumberings

countable, uncountable 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.
US, countable, uncountable The business of felling trees for lumber.

adjective more lumbering · most lumbering

Clumsy or awkward. I've kidnapped that lumbering fool Donkey Kong and you will never see him again. Har-har-har-har!
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.

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noun the business of felling trees for lumber

Русский	лесозагото́вка lesozagotóvka

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@misc{lumbering_2026,
  title = {lumbering},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lumbering},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}