lumbering

plural lumberings

1. countableuncountableThe 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.

   1887, Hall Caine, The Deemster

2. UScountableuncountableThe business of felling trees for lumber.

comparative more lumbering · superlative most lumbering

1. Clumsy or awkward.

   I've kidnapped that lumbering fool Donkey Kong and you will never see him again. Har-har-har-har!

   1995, Rare, Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, Nintendo, →OCLC, SNES, scene: Pirate Panic

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.

   2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55