Lumbering is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LUMBERING in dictionary:

VERB:
• move in a slow, heavy, awkward way
• burden (someone) with something unwanted
• cut and prepare forest timber for transport and sale
• casually strike up a relationship with (a prospective sexual partner)
NOUN:
• the act of lumbering
• articles of furniture or other household items that are no longer useful and inconveniently take up storage space
• timber sawn into rough planks or otherwise partly prepared
• a person regarded as a prospective sexual partner
• business or trade of cutting, transporting, preparing, or selling timber
• The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber.
• the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber
ADJECTIVE:
• walking heavily
• slow and laborious because of weight
• awkward in movement
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cut down and prepare timber for market

Words related to LUMBERING

lumber10 lumbered13 lumberingly19 lumberingness18 lumberings15 lumbers11 lumbersome16

Words that contain LUMBERING

lumberings15 slumbering15 lumberingly19 slumberings16 slumberingly20 unslumbering17 lumberingness18 lumberingnesses20

How to use LUMBERING in a sentence

• Culpepper and took him for a lumbering dance up and down the room.
• No easy job to steer these great lumbering machines between these treacherous stumps.
• Inger was full of a desperate sweetness towards him, and the great heavy fellow, lumbering carrier of burdens, felt a greed and an endless desire for her in himself.
• But before I could tell him what I thought of his stupidity and rudeness he had wheeled his horse, and was lumbering away down the other road.
• Destructive lumbering is never practiced in these forests.
• Eastern and middle western manufacturing and lumbering centres are interested in the restoring of the southern pine forests.
• But in the early decades Indian trading, lumbering and miscellaneous farming were the only means of livelihood, none of which gave distinct occasion for employing negroes.
• It seemed to him that on the next instant he MUST perforce wheel sharply eastward and rush away headlong in a clumsy, lumbering gallop.
• A steamship had brought in men and supplies, and all summer men had been building camps and preparing for lumbering operations during the coming winter.
• Those grotesque and lumbering steps are all that is left of the promise of childhood.
• All preparations had now been made for the lumbering operations and work would begin on Monday morning.
• Sinclair, the manager of the city Light and Power Company, and who does a big lumbering business besides.
• His fresh voice came up to her mingled with the rattle of the lumbering carts in the street.
• He called himself a lumbering fool and laughed again, sitting there with the rain beating upon him.
• The Japanese are engaged chiefly in lumbering and fishing, but the Chinese are found everywhere in the province.
• A huge grizzly faced him on the trail one afternoon, growled its menace, and went lumbering into the big rocks with awkward speed.
• Suddenly the pad-elephant wheeled about with big clumsy movements, and was off at a good round lumbering trot in the opposite direction.
• They were gone as they had come, lumbering rapidly, and as they passed northward the southern breeze carried the sound away.
• A miscellaneous, lumbering collection of junk and odds and ends blocked the entry, leaving no more space than was sufficient for bare passageway.
• The charming interest of one of them is worth a whole volume of lumbering history of a revolution or royal line.
• One morning, as I was reading by the fireside, I heard a prodigious lumbering at the door.
• Flour-making and lumbering were the two industries which made most consistent progress in the colony.
• If you find lumbering operations going on within the state forest, do your best to stop the cutting and report the matter at once.
• Cowper makes him slow, lumbering, a Milton without the music.
• It has about 6,000 people, and is a center of lumbering and fishing.
• HAMILTON, at the head of navigation on the Skagit river, is a mining and lumbering town of 300 people.
• ARLINGTON is a mining and lumbering town on the Northern Pacific railway, well up toward the mountains.
• He was very nasty and said his business was lumbering and not mining.

Similar words containing LUMBER without suffix ing

lumber10 clumber13 lumbers11 plumber13 slumber11 clumbers14 lumbered13 lumberer12 lumberly15 plumbers14 plumbery17 slumbers12 slumbery15 lumberers13 lumberman15 lumbermen15 slumbered14 slumberer13 lumberings15 lumberjack27 lumbersome16 lumberyard18 plumberies16 slumberers14 slumberful17 slumbering15 slumberous14 slumberier14 lumberingly19 lumberjacks28 lumberyards19 slumberings16 slumberland16 slumberless15 slumbersome17 slumberiest15 lumberjacket29 slumberingly20 slumberlands17 slumberously19 unslumbering17 lumberingness18 lumberjackets30 schlumbergera23 lumbersomeness20 schlumbergeras24 slumberousness18 lumberingnesses20

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