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lum·ber·ing

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. lumberingadjective

    the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber

  2. heavy, lumbering, ponderousadjective

    slow and laborious because of weight

    "the heavy tread of tired troops"; "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot"; "ponderous prehistoric beasts"; "a ponderous yawn"

Wiktionary

  1. lumberingnoun

    The business of felling trees for lumber.

  2. lumberingadjective

    Clumsy or awkward.

  3. lumberingadjective

    Heavy, slow and laborious; ponderous.

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  1. lumbering

    Lumbering refers to the process of cutting down trees, transporting them, or processing them into timber or other usable forms of wood. This is typically done on a large scale in forests managed for commercial timber production. The term can also refer to any heavy, slow, and laborious movement or activity.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Lumbering

    of Lumber

  2. Lumberingnoun

    the business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of lumbering in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of lumbering in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of lumbering in a Sentence

  1. Nancy Pelosi:

    Americans know that these dinosaurs should be lumbering off into the sunset – at least Trump was only in Washington for 4 years.

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