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lum·ber·ing       [luhm-ber-ing] Pronunciation Key
–noun
the trade or business of cutting and preparing lumber.
[Origin: 1765–75; lumber1 + -ing1]
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lum·ber 1       (lŭm'bər)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. Timber sawed into boards, planks, or other structural members of standard or specified length.
  2. Something useless or cumbersome.
  3. Chiefly British Miscellaneous stored articles.

v.   lum·bered, lum·ber·ing, lum·bers

v.   tr.
    1. To cut down (trees) and prepare as marketable timber.
    2. To cut down the timber of.
  2. Chiefly British To clutter with or as if with unused articles.

v.   intr.
To cut and prepare timber for marketing.


[Perhaps from lumber2.]

lum'ber adj., lum'ber·er n.
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lum·ber 2       (lŭm'bər)  Pronunciation Key 
intr.v.   lum·bered, lum·ber·ing, lum·bers
  1. To walk or move with heavy clumsiness. See Synonyms at blunder.
  2. To move with a rumbling noise.


[Middle English lomeren, possibly of Scandinavian origin; akin to Swedish dialectal loma, to move heavily.]

lum'ber·ing·ly adv.
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lumbering

adjective
1. slow and laborious because of weight; "the heavy tread of tired troops"; "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot"; "ponderous prehistoric beasts"; "a ponderous yawn" [syn: heavy] 

noun
1. the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber 

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Lumbering

Lum"ber\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lumbered; p. pr. & vb. n. Lumbering.]

1. To heap together in disorder. " Stuff lumbered together." --Rymer.

2. To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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