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say it: LUHM-bur-ing
lumbering is a noun and adjective meaning "the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber". It is pronounced /ˈlʌmbɚɪŋ/ — LUHM-bur-ing. It carries 2 recorded senses.
the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber
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”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for lumbering come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.