1. moving in a slow, heavy, awkward way

1. the business or work of cutting down trees and preparing timber

Examples

• The lumbering elephant slowly crossed the savanna.
• His lumbering gait made it clear he was exhausted.
• The old truck came lumbering down the mountain road.
• Lumbering is an important industry in the Pacific Northwest.
• He worked in lumbering for twenty years before retiring.
• The lumbering giant struggled to fit through the doorway.
• Environmental groups oppose lumbering in old-growth forests.