Hulking vs Lumbering - What's the difference?
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Large and bulky.
(man) Tall and heavily built.
Unwieldy.
The act of one who lumbers; heavy, clumsy movement.
* 1887 , Hall Caine, The Deemster
(US) The business of felling trees for lumber.
Clumsy or awkward.
Heavy, slow and laborious; ponderous.
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Hulking is a related term of lumbering.
As adjectives the difference between hulking and lumbering
is that hulking is large and bulky while lumbering is clumsy or awkward.As a noun lumbering is
the act of one who lumbers; heavy, clumsy movement.hulking
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Adjective
(-)Quotations
* 2001 — , Artemis Fowl , p 212 *: A hulking shape burst through the doorway and hurtled down the corridor, leaving a maelstrom of air currents in his wake.lumbering
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Noun
- Only the old harbor-master was there, singing out, as by duty bound, his lusty oaths at their lumberings .
Adjective
(en adjective)Obama goes troll-hunting, passage=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.}}