a. [f. LUMBER v.1 + -SOME.] Cumbrous, unwieldy.

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1834.  M. Scott, in Blackw. Mag., XXXV. 314. Sprawl … invariably wore with his back to him, and so lumbersome and slowly, that the Commodore usually had wheeled … long before Mr. Sprawl came round.

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1837.  C. Lofft, Self-formation, I. 142. I was like a young greyhound, sprawling, uncouth, and lumbersome.

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1873.  Browning, Red Cott. Nt.-cap, II. Wks. 1898, II. 396/2. The large and lumbersome and … dignified And gentry-fashioned old-style haunts of sleep.

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