Lumbering

Full definition of lumbering

Noun

1. (US) The business of felling trees for lumber.

Adjective

1. Clumsy or awkward.
2. Heavy, slow and laborious; ponderous.
• 2013-06-08, Obama goes troll-hunting, The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.