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lumbery en · ADJ

Etymology

From lumber + -y.

Meanings

1. Characteristic of lumber or of lumbering.
   • The train passed, and she slowly raised her eyes to it, to the dwindle of red lights atop the rounded end of the club car as a lumbery clatter from the weight of the Traveler on the long trestle carried back to her. 2005, John Farris, Phantom Nights, page 20:
   • There was a lumbery look, and a want of wiriness about his progeny, that could not be mistaken. 1864, Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, volume 7, page 359:
   • […] then being passed over to a boy who took me around to a narrow, dark door and carried me into a lumbery place and put me in a chair where I looked out into what seemed a bright, sunshiny world with queer trees and fairies. 1899, Lewis Clinton Strang, Famous Actresses of the Day in America, page 54:

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