lumbers

Walks with weight

Lumbers is the third-person singular of lumber, which has two distinct meanings.

One lumber means to move heavily and clumsily: The bear lumbered through the underbrush.

The other lumber refers to timber—wood processed for building.

To lumber is to cut and prepare timber commercially.

A lumberjack lumbers; so does anything that moves with awkward weight.

walking

plods

Walks slowly, laboriously

trudgesWalks laboriously
clompsWalks with heavy steps
stompsSteps hard and loud

shuffles · galumphs · waddles · shambles · heavyset · gait · footsteps · ponderous · slow · awkward

timber

logs

Cut wood sections

planksFlat construction lumber pieces
boardsPlanks or governing bodies
sawmillLog-to-board factory

forestry · felling · woodcutting · logging · timber · hardwood · softwood · beams · joists · studs

burden

encumbers

Impedes with weight

saddlesEquestrian seating equipment
burdensWeighty obligations borne
weighsMeasures heaviness of

hampers · impedes · loads · saddled · stuck · burdened · hindered · strapped · taxed · obligations

Opposites

movement quality

lumbersglides

Moves smoothly, frictionlessly

darts · sprints · scurries · bounds · flits

physical effort

lumbersglides

Moves smoothly, frictionlessly

floats · sails · breezes · coasts · flows

Phrases

lumber yardWood retail facility
lumber millWood processing plant
lumber campsWoods-based worker quarters
lumber industryCommercial wood harvesting sector
raw lumber
construction lumberSawn wood for building

Family

lumber, lumbering, lumbered

Familiarity: Top 100,000
Profile: Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G