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lumbering

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1. lumbering - Noun

2. lumbering - Adjective

4. lumbering - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Lumber

The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the plowman, splashing the wintry mold, Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart. William Butler Yeats

The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window! H. P. Lovecraft

You're supposed to eat the cows. They're great big lumbering stupid things - they'd be everywhere if we didn't eat them. Dylan Moran

Frank Zhang: lumbering klutz, child of Mars, part-time pachyderm. Rick Riordan

I rarely ever put my head above the rampart and see where this big lumbering behemoth called 'global literature' is going. David Mitchell (author)

Don't notice the tiny flea in the other person's hair and overlook the lumbering yak on your own nose. Tibetan Proverb

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