Meaning of lumbery | Babel Free

Definitions

Characteristic of lumber or of lumbering.

Examples

“There was a lumbery look⟳, and a want⟳ of wiriness about his progeny, that could not be mistaken.”

“[…] 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.”

“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.”

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