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▪ I. lumbering, vbl. n.1|ˈlʌmbərɪŋ|
[f. lumber v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of lumber v.1
1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 486 Wee heard a noise..continuing with increase of lumbring. 1782Cowper Gilpin 232 The lumbering of the wheels. 1816Scott Old Mort. xviii, The lumbering of the old guns backwards and forwards shook the battlements.
▪ II. lumbering, vbl. n.2|ˈlʌmbərɪŋ|
[f. lumber v.2 + -ing1.]
1. The action of filling with lumber.
1775in Ash, Suppl.
2. The trade or business of a lumberer; dealing or working in timber.
1792J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 213 Towns adjoining the river, in which lumbering was formerly the chief employment. 1898G. F. R. Henderson Stonewall Jackson I. i. 10 Young men had to serve a practical apprenticeship to lumbering and agriculture.
b. attrib., as lumbering-camp, lumbering season.
1857Thoreau Maine W. (1894) 143 Here were the ruins of an old lumbering-camp. 1873Wisconsin Rep. XXXI. 424 The coming lumbering season.
▪ III. lumbering, ppl. a.|ˈlʌmbərɪŋ|
[f. lumber v.1 and v.2 + -ing2.]
Ponderous in movement, inconveniently bulky. lit. and fig.
1593Nashe Four Lett. conf. G 3 Master Stannyhurst..trod a foule lumbring boystrous wallowing measures [sic] in his translation of Virgil. 1594― Terrors Nt. Wks. (Grosart) III. 275 And yet me thinkes it comes off too goutie and lumbring. 1606J. Raynolds Dolarney's Prim. (1880) 118 There might be heard, the hideous lumbring swasher. 1736New Hampsh. Prov. Papers (1870) IV. 713 We had only time..to save our lumbering stuff, such as tables and chairs. 1792Wolcot (P. Pindar) Ode to the Pope ii. Wks. III. 256 Upon the sportsman's breaking back, A lumb'ring eighteen pounder. 1811Scott Fam. Lett. (1894) I. vii. 229, I agree with you respecting the lumbering weight of the stanza. 1855Mrs. Gatty Parables fr. Nat. Ser. i. (1869) 3 A caterpillar, who was strolling along a cabbage leaf in his odd lumbering way. 1885Sat. Rev. 6 June 758/1 How lumbering all their rapier play Beside your finished carte and tierce. 1900Longm. Mag. Oct. 574 It was a great heavy lumbering travelling coach.
†b. Rumbling. Obs.
1678Bunyan Pilgr. i. 159 A lumbring noise as of fire. 1684Ibid. ii. 27.
Hence ˈlumberingly adv., ˈlumberingness.
1850Bentl. Misc. Jan. 12 ‘Come—be alive!’ and Meg moved lumberingly out. 1860Rutledge 112, I..ran up stairs followed lumberingly by the housekeeper. 1869Echo 13 Feb., The intolerable lumberingness of its action [sc. of the House of Commons]. 1885D. C. Murray Rainbow Gold III. vi. iii. 214 A drunken sailor who howled a song and danced lumberingly. 1900N. Munro in Blackw. Mag. Oct. 451/1 The beast..fell lumberingly on its side. |