a. [f. LUMBER v.1 + -LY1.] Clumsy, cumbrous.

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1805.  Coleridge, Lett. (1895), II. 488. The latter word shall have become an incurable synonym, a lumberly duplicate.

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1855.  Robinson, Whitby Gloss., Lummerly or Lumberly, awkward, cumbrous.

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1880.  J. A. H. Murray, Address to Philol. Soc., 30. England is stirring, in a slow, lumberly, and timorous fashion.

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