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n. - The trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber adj. - Slow and laborious because of weight.

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Usage examples (38)
  • Verb (used with object) : We lumbered more than a million acres last year
  • Verb (used without object) : overloaded wagons lumbering down the dirt road
  • I am a huge fan of fast, movie style fiction, so the slow lumbering is too much for me.
  • Brockman: Yes, well … Homer, organized labor has been called a lumbering dinosaur …
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