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lumbering
noun 2adj 2
Collocations
4ADJ.
solitary
VERB + LUMBERING
kidnapped
LUMBERING + NOUN
donkey, fool, kong, river, scandinavian, trolls
PREP.
up
Definitions
noun
1
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.
2
The business of felling trees for lumber.
adj
1
Clumsy or awkward.
I've kidnapped that lumbering fool Donkey Kong and you will never see him again. Har-har-har-har!
2
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.
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Example Bank
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Only the old harbor-master was there, singing out, as by duty bound, his lusty oaths at their lumberings.
Wiktionary02
I've kidnapped that lumbering fool Donkey Kong and you will never see him again. Har-har-har-har!
Wiktionary03
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 simi
Wiktionary04
We do lumbering up the river.
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