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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Lumber  \Lum"ber\,  b.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Lumbered};  p.  pr  &  vb 
  n.  {Lumbering}.] 
  1.  To  heap  together  in  disorder.  ``  Stuff  lumbered 
  together.''  --Rymer. 
 
  2.  To  fill  or  encumber  with  lumber;  as  to  lumber  up  a  room 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Lumbering  \Lum"ber*ing\,  n. 
  The  business  of  cutting  or  getting  timber  or  logs  from  the 
  forest  for  lumber.  [U.S.] 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  lumbering 
  adj  :  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"  [syn:  {heavy},  {ponderous}] 




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