Definitions for lumbering

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lumbering lum·ber·ing

Spelling: [luhm-ber-ing]

IPA: /ˈlʌm bər ɪŋ/

Lumbering is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

You can make 431 anagrams from letters in lumbering (begilmnru).

Definitions for lumbering

noun

1. the trade or business of cutting and preparing lumber.
2. timber sawed or split into planks, boards, etc.
3. miscellaneous useless articles that are stored away.

verb (used with object)

1. to convert (a specified amount, area, etc.) into lumber:
2. to heap together in disorder.
3. to fill up or obstruct with miscellaneous useless articles; encumber.

verb (used without object)

1. to cut timber and prepare it for market.
2. to become useless or to be stored away as useless.
3. to move clumsily or heavily, especially from great or ponderous bulk:
4. to make a rumbling noise.

Origin of lumbering

First recorded in 1765-75; lumber¹ + -ing¹

Examples for lumbering

Pop, pop, pop, Ali—then Cassius Clay—surrounded the lumbering Scandinavian with zinging leather.

The heavy, lumbering steps of a policeman at last broke her reverie.

But his lumbering lurch toward the Ted Cruz tin-foil-hat convention should instead be an object lesson for Republicans to come.

His instinct was to "charge" and he made one lumbering plunge.

This was about the time a Texas lumbering company was becoming a major stockholder in Time Inc.

He shouted to the postilion, and the huge, lumbering vehicle was set in motion.

For now, Carlisle says the best way to keep rhinos alive is by moving them, one lumbering gray creature at a time.

Today, however, that same, lumbering Julio Cesar kept Brazil in the World Cup.

At the end he nodded, and, with a lumbering movement, altered his position in his chair.

Their lumbering craft is the first to touch the side of the Teutonic.