lumbering
English edit
Noun edit
lumbering (countable and uncountable, plural lumberings)
- The act of one who lumbers; heavy, clumsy movement.
- 1887, Hall Caine, The Deemster:
- Only the old harbor-master was there, singing out, as by duty bound, his lusty oaths at their lumberings.
- (US) The business of felling trees for lumber.
Translations edit
The business of felling trees for lumber
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Adjective edit
lumbering (comparative more lumbering, superlative most lumbering)
- Clumsy or awkward.
- 1995, Rare, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Nintendo, →OCLC, SNES, scene: Pirate Panic:
- I've kidnapped that lumbering fool Donkey Kong and you will never see him again. Har-har-har-har!
- Heavy, slow and laborious; ponderous.
- 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:
- 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.