Usually means: Moving in a slow, heavy manner.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. lumbering: Merriam-Webster
  2. lumbering, lumbering: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lumbering: Collins English Dictionary
  4. lumbering: Vocabulary.com
  5. Lumbering, lumbering: Wordnik
  6. lumbering: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. lumbering: Wiktionary
  8. lumbering: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. lumbering: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Lumbering, lumbering: Dictionary.com
  11. lumbering: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Lumbering: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Lumbering: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. lumbering: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. lumbering: Rhymezone
  16. Lumbering: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. LUMBERING: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  18. lumbering: FreeDictionary.org
  19. lumbering: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. lumbering: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lumbering: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lumbering: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lumbering: Idioms

(Note: See lumber as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  The act of one who lumbers; heavy, clumsy movement.
noun:  (US) The business of felling trees for lumber.
adjective:  Clumsy or awkward.
adjective:  Heavy, slow and laborious; ponderous.

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