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1. Slow and laborious because of weight
   "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot";
   - heavy, ponderous

1. The trade of cutting, preparing or selling timber

1. Move heavily or clumsily
   "The heavy man lumbered across the room";
   - pound
    
2. Cut lumber, as in woods and forests
   - log
    
3. [Brit, informal] Load or burden; encumber
   - saddle
    
4. [Brit, informal] Impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
   - charge, saddle, burden

Derived forms: lumberings

See also: heavy-footed

Type of: burden, burthen, command, craft, cut down, drop, fell, require, strike down, trade, walk, weight, weight down

Encyclopedia: Lumbering