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

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.

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