lumbering
the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber • Hypernyms: trade, craft
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 • Similar to: heavy-footed • Derivationally related forms: ponderousness (for: ponderous)
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