1. The trade of cutting, preparing or selling timber
   "The town's economy was based on lumbering"

1. Slow and laborious because of weight
   "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot";
   - heavy, ponderous

1. Move heavily or clumsily
   "The heavy man lumbered across the room";
   - pound
    
2. Cut lumber, as in woods and forests
   "The company lumbered the old-growth forest";
   - log
    
3. [Brit, informal] Impose a task upon, assign a responsibility to
   "He lumbered her with cleaning up all the files over the weekend";
   - charge, saddle, burden
    
4. [Brit, informal] Load or burden; encumber
   "he lumbered me with that heavy responsibility";
   - saddle

Derived forms: lumberings

See also: heavy-footed

Type of: burden, burthen, command, craft, cut down, drop, fell, require, strike down, trade, walk, weight, weight down

Encyclopedia: Lumbering