lumbering's Usage Examples:

ecstatic drops of dubstep or trap, but provides a warm bounce rather than a lumbering bruteness.

Snow Tent grew into a gold mining and lumbering center, then vanished sometime after 1880.

Historic industries on and around North Mountain include lumbering and ice cutting.

increasing role lumbering and logging played in the Maine economy, particularly in the state's central and eastern sections.

Bangor arose as a lumbering boom-town.

in 1852, Webber moved to Manistee County where he engaged in farming, lumbering, manufacturing, and mercantile pursuits.

By the 1920s repeated fires and the decline of lumbering led to its demise.

shot victory and Pink Star was described by contemporary sources as a lumbering and ugly mount.

located on the west coast of the Burin Peninsula, was well known for its lumbering and now for its lobstering operations.

He engaged in lumbering and banking in West Bay City, where he was mayor, 1881-1884.

During the lumbering boom of the late 19th century, Marinette became the tenth-largest city.

Clair County in 1878 and engaged in farming and lumbering until 1884 when he returned to East Saginaw.

The OED mentions in the verb "lumbering" that it first meant to obstruct with pieces of wood to make things from.

During the period 1900 to 1915, Osceola was a sizable lumbering town of several hundred loggers, timbermen, sawmill operators and saloonkeepers.

Canyon was possibly named for the blue smoke of the camps when extensive lumbering occurred there in the 1850s.

was nominated for being the birthplace of the region's seminal industry—lumbering—and a major landing on its crucial transportation route, the St.

best-remembered scenes of the original series, in part due to the slow and lumbering movement of the Gorn, which some viewers have considered unintentionally.

Synonyms:

heavy-footed; heavy; ponderous;

Antonyms:

effortless; interesting; light; light-footed;