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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