Search for crossword answers and clues
Moving like an elephant
Answer for the clue "Moving like an elephant ", 9 letters:
lumbering
Alternative clues for the word lumbering
Word definitions for lumbering in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lumber \Lum"ber\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lumbered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Lumbering .] To heap together in disorder. `` Stuff lumbered together.'' --Rymer. To fill or encumber with lumber; as, to lumber up a room.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. slow and laborious because of weight; "the heavy tread of tired troops"; "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot"; "ponderous prehistoric beasts"; "a ponderous yawn" [syn: heavy , ponderous ] n. the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 clumsy or awkward. 2 heavy, slow and laborious; ponderous. n. 1 The act of one who lumbers; heavy, clumsy movement. 2 (context US English) The business of felling trees for lumber.
Usage examples of lumbering.
I saw one of them, but he was deep down, amongst the pack of lumbering Albacore sharks.
Sulu objected, backing up slowly, eyes fixed on the lumbering reptilian bandersnatch in front of them.
The thinko has shown him pictures of them, spectacularly decadent in size and appearance, long-snouted duckbilled monsters as big as a house and huge lumbering ceratopsians with frilly baroque bony crests and toothy things with knobby horns on their elongated skulls and others with rows of bristling spikes along their high-ridged backs.
The thinko has shown him pictures of them, spectacularly decadent in size and appearance, long-snouted duck-billed monsters as big as a house and huge lumbering ceratopsians with frilly baroque bony crests and toothy things with knobby horns on their elongated skulls and others with rows of bristling spikes along their high-ridged backs.
Among the masts of countless fishing boats, he spied a Tyroshi trading galley off-loading beside a lumbering Ibbenese cog with her black-tarred hull.
The beating tread of his lumbering feet on the stairs recalled another sound that beat in fogginess of his mind.
The beings were lumbering toward the interlopers, issuing hoots which Indira could generically recognize as happy greetings.
Relatively tiny in terms of permanent staff, globally distributed, more post-geographic than multinational, the agency has from the beginning billed itself as a high-speed, low-drag life-form in an advertising ecology of lumbering herbivores.
Her missiles ripped into it, damaging its impellers, laming it so that even a lumbering merchantship could outpace it.
We could see the plane at the opposite end of the field lumbering towards us, and Pickel drove straight at it.
We paid our fares nice and polite and waited gentlemanly and quiet on the platform, old Dim fillying with the slot machines, his carmans being full of small malenky coin, and ready if need be to distribute chocbars to the poor and starving, though there was none such about, and then the old espresso rapido came lumbering in and we climbed aboard, the train looking to be near empty.
The vehicle, clumsily swaying and lumbering like some great amorfibot rousted unwilling from the dune where it had been dozing, drifted riverward and moved out over the water.
Down this blood poured in like red curtains, but you could viddy Billyboy felt not a thing, and he went lumbering on like a filthy fatty bear, poking at me with his nozh.
Such lumbering logomachy is always injurious and oppressive to men of spirit, imagination or intellectual honour, and it has dealt very recklessly and wrongly with Bernard Shaw.
Unconsciously, Maria slowed her pace, sick of the sight of the lumbering freight wagons.