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In some senses, lumbered is marked as slang, obsolete, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.
lumbered
adj 2
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2ADJ.
dusty, lonely
PREP.
across, along, on, with
Definitions
adj
1
Trapped, encumbered.
‘And you're going to marry her, are you? Or have you knocked her up?’ ‘No. Neither.’ ‘So you’re just going out? You’re not lumbered?’
2
In prison.
But I knew that he was married only a week ago, and never dreamt that he would leave his pretty wife to poke his nose into Banks's crib. What an infernal oversight on my part! And now — here I am, regularly lumbered; and all the swag arising from Kate Wilmot's business is in the hands of that canting sneak Banks! Damnation to Richard Markham! I shall swing for this if I don't take precious good care.
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‘And you're going to marry her, are you? Or have you knocked her up?’ ‘No. Neither.’ ‘So you’re just going out? You’re not lumbered?’
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But I knew that he was married only a week ago, and never dreamt that he would leave his pretty wife to poke his nose into Banks's crib. What an infernal oversight on my part! And now — here I am, reg
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Tom lumbered along like an elephant.
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The rover lumbered on the lonely sulfurous ground of the volcanic moon Io.
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The rover lumbered across the dusty red plain on Mars.
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Of course, we're the ones lumbered with the costs yet again.
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