单词 | lumbering |
释义 | lumberingn.1 The action of lumber v.1 ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [noun] > heavily or clumsily lumbering1621 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > [noun] > roll or rumble humblingc1384 bubblinga1398 hurlinga1398 grolling1398 rumblec1405 rumblingc1405 rolling1535 blumbering1556 roll1602 rumblement1604 grumblinga1616 lumbering1621 volutation1640 lumber1752 growlery1830 growl1833 growling1834 grumble1899 strumble1938 1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 486 Wee heard a noise..continuing with increase of lumbring. 1782 W. Cowper John Gilpin 232 The lumbering of the wheels. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality vi, in Tales of my Landlord 1st Ser. III. 129 The lumbering of the old guns backwards and forwards shook the battlements. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online September 2019). lumberingn.2 1. The action of filling with lumber. ΚΠ 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Suppl. Lumbering, the act of filling with lumber. 2. a. The trade or business of a lumberer; dealing or working in timber. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] lumbering1792 1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 213 Towns adjoining the river, in which lumbering was formerly the chief employment. 1898 G. F. R. Henderson Stonewall Jackson I. i. 10 Young men had to serve a practical apprenticeship to lumbering and agriculture. b. attributive, as lumbering-camp, lumbering season. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > camp or encampment > [noun] > type of ordu1673 chantier1823 douar1829 outcamp1844 log-camp1858 lumbering-camp1858 yayla1864 refugee camp1865 cow-camp1873 gypsyry1873 work camp1877 tent town1878 logging-camp1880 lumber-camp1882 town camp1885 base camp1887 line-camp1888 wanigan1890 isolation camp1891 tent village1899 sheep-camp1911 safari camp1912 jungle1914 transit camp1919 Siwash camp1922 health camp1925 tent city1934 fly camp1939 bivvy1961 1858 H. D. Thoreau Chesuncook in Atlantic Monthly June 11/1 Here were the ruins of an old lumbering-camp. 1873 Rep. Supreme Court Wisconsin 31 424 The coming lumbering season. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online September 2018). lumberingadj. a. Ponderous in movement, inconveniently bulky. literal and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [adjective] > moving along heavily or clumsily lumbering1593 lumpering1787 lobbing1840 the world > life > the body > bodily height > tallness > [adjective] > and broad massya1382 stout1390 burlyc1400 corporalc1475 massive1485 poisy1538 big-made1566 chopping1566 grossa1578 large-bodied1577 weighty1581 burly-boned1590 mastya1593 lumbering1593 giantisha1635 gigantic1651 mastiff1668 large-made1725 lusty1777 bowerly1794 squelching1854 beef to the heel(s)1867 hefty1867 the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > of large volume or bulky > and clumsy unridec1175 un-i-weldec1275 boistous?a1400 cumbrousa1400 roida1450 clubbishc1530 lumpish?1573 bouncing1579 unwieldy1582 boisterous1590 unfeirdyc1590 lumbering1593 cumbersome1594 elephantic1598 elephant-likea1603 moliminous1642 clumpish1681 rhinocerical1689 hulking1699 hulky1785 lumberly1805 elephantine1826 rhinocerial1828 lumbersome1834 clumpy1836 lumbrous1836 hippopotamic1853 hippopotamian1864 megatherial1894 hippopotamine1911 1593 T. Nashe Strange Newes G 3 Master Stannyhurst..trod a foule lumbring boystrous wallowing measures [sic] in his translation of Virgil. 1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night in Wks. (Grosart) III. 275 And yet me thinkes it comes off too goutie and lumbring. 1606 J. Reynolds Dolarnys Primerose (1880) 118 There might be heard, the hideous lumbring swasher. 1736 in N. Bouton Provinc. Papers New-Hampsh. (1870) IV. 713 We had only time..to save our lumbering stuff, such as tables and chairs. 1793 ‘P. Pindar’ Ode ii, in Poet. Epist. to Pope 31 Upon the sportsman's breaking back, A lumb'ring eighteen pounder. 1811 W. Scott Let. Sept. (1932) II. 543 I agree with you respecting the lumbering weight of the stanza. 1855 M. Gatty Parables 3 A quiet caterpillar, who was strolling along a cabbage leaf in her odd lumbering way. 1885 Sat. Rev. 6 June 758/1 How lumbering all their rapier play Beside your finished carte and tierce. 1900 Longman's Mag. Oct. 574 It was a great heavy lumbering travelling coach. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > continuous or protracted sound > [adjective] > rolling or rumbling (of sound) > making rolling or rumbling sound rumbling1566 rolling1575 rumbelow1582 rumbled1582 lumbering1678 rumbly1829 1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 159 A lumbring noise as of fire. View more context for this quotation 1684 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 2nd Pt. ii. 27. Derivatives ˈlumberingly adv. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [adverb] > heavily or clumsily lumberingly1850 the world > life > the body > bodily height > tallness > [adverb] > and broad massilya1400 lumberingly1850 1850 Bentley's Misc. Jan. 12 ‘Come—be alive!’ and Meg moved lumberingly out. 1860 Rutledge 112 I..ran up stairs followed lumberingly by the housekeeper. 1885 D. C. Murray Rainbow Gold III. vi. iii. 214 A drunken sailor who howled a song and danced lumberingly. 1900 N. Munro in Blackwood's Mag. Oct. 451/1 The beast..fell lumberingly on its side. ˈlumberingness n. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > specific manner of progressive motion > [noun] > heavily or clumsily > quality lumberingness1869 the world > action or operation > ability > inability > unskilfulness > [noun] > clumsiness or awkwardness bungerliness1598 lubberliness1598 indexterity1611 sinisterity1623 clumsiness1652 ungainness1727 ungainliness1755 awkwardnessa1770 maladroitness1781 ponderousness1801 lumberingness1869 gawkihood1872 gawkiness1873 klutziness1973 1869 Echo 13 Feb. 3/1 The intolerable, lumberingness of its action [sc. of the House of Commons]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.11621n.21775adj.1593 |
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