lumbering
noun
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L323457 on Wikidata ↗adjective
- moving in a slow, heavy, awkward manner
Wiktionary
adj
- Clumsy or awkward.
“I've kidnapped that lumbering fool Donkey Kong and you will never see him again. Har-har-har-har!”
- Heavy, slow and laborious; ponderous.
“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.”
noun
- The act of one who lumbers; heavy, clumsy movement.
“Only the old harbor-master was there, singing out, as by duty bound, his lusty oaths at their lumberings.”
- The business of felling trees for lumber.