lumberly, a.
(ˈlʌmbəlɪ)
[f. lumber v.1 + -ly1.]
Clumsy, cumbrous.
| 1805 Coleridge Lett. (1895) II. 488 The latter word shall have become an incurable synonym, a lumberly duplicate. 1855 Robinson Whitby Gloss., Lummerly or Lumberly, awkward, cumbrous. 1880 J. A. H. Murray Address to Philol. Soc. 30 England is stirring, in a slow, lumberly, and timorous fashion. |