lumbering Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. noun the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber
   
2. verb move heavily or clumsily
   lumber; pound.
   
   • The heavy man lumbered across the room
3. verb cut lumber, as in woods and forests
   lumber; log.
   
4. adjective satellite slow and laborious because of weight
   heavy; ponderous.
   
   • the heavy tread of tired troops
   • moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot
   • ponderous prehistoric beasts
   • a ponderous yawn

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