Lumbering

lumbering
    adj 1: 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}, {lumbering}, {ponderous}]
    n 1: the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber
    

Lumbering \Lum"ber*ing\, n.
   The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the
   forest for lumber. [U.S.]
   [1913 Webster]
    

Lumber \Lum"ber\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lumbered}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Lumbering}.]
   1. To heap together in disorder. " Stuff lumbered together."
      --Rymer.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.
      [1913 Webster]
    

153 Moby Thesaurus words for "lumbering":
      Christmas tree farming, Latinate, afforestation, all thumbs,
      ambling, ambulation, arboriculture, awkward, backpacking,
      blunderheaded, blundering, bombastic, boorish, bulky, bumbling,
      bungling, butterfingered, careless, cautious, circumspect,
      claudicant, clownish, clumsy, clumsy-fisted, cramped, crawling,
      creeping, creeping like snail, cumbersome, cumbrous, deliberate,
      easy, elephantine, faltering, fingers all thumbs, flagging,
      foot-dragging, footing, footing it, footwork, forced,
      forest management, forestation, forestry, formal, fumbling, gauche,
      gawkish, gawky, gentle, going on foot, graceless, gradual, guinde,
      halting, ham-fisted, ham-handed, heavy, heavy-handed, hiking,
      hitchhiking, hitching, hobbled, hobbling, hoofing, hulking, hulky,
      idle, indolent, inelegant, inept, inkhorn, labored, languid,
      languorous, lazy, leaden, left-hand, left-handed, legwork,
      leisurely, limping, logging, loutish, lubberly, lumpish, lumpy,
      maladroit, marching, massive, massy, moderate, oafish,
      pedestrianism, perambulation, poking, poky, pompous, ponderous,
      reforestation, relaxed, reluctant, sauntering, sesquipedalian,
      shuffling, silviculture, slack, sloppy, slothful, slow,
      slow as death, slow as molasses, slow as slow, slow-crawling,
      slow-foot, slow-going, slow-legged, slow-moving, slow-paced,
      slow-poky, slow-running, slow-sailing, slow-stepped, sluggish,
      snail-paced, snaillike, splay, staggering, stiff, stilted,
      strolling, tentative, thumbing, thumbing a ride, toddling,
      tortoiselike, tottering, tramping, treading, tree farming,
      trudging, turgid, turtlelike, uncouth, ungainly, ungraceful,
      unhandy, unhurried, unwieldy, waddling, walking, woodcraft,
      wooden