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lumbery

lumbery adjective: characteristic of lumber or of lumbering.

Adjective

lumbery (comparative more lumbery, superlative most lumbery)

  1. Characteristic of lumber or of lumbering.
    • There was a lumbery look, and a want of wiriness about his progeny, that could not be mistaken.1864, Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, volume 7, page 359
    • […] then being passed over to a boy who took me around to a narrow, dark door and carried me into a lumbery place and put me in a chair where I looked out into what seemed a bright, sunshiny world with queer trees and fairies.1899, Lewis Clinton Strang, Famous Actresses of the Day in America, page 54

Forms of lumbery

comparativemore lumbery
superlativemost lumbery

Origin of lumbery

From lumber + -y.

Questions about lumbery

What does lumbery mean?
Lumbery means characteristic of lumber or of lumbering.
What part of speech is lumbery?
Lumbery is an adjective.

Words near lumbery in the dictionary

  1. Lumberville
  2. lumberwoman
  3. lumberwomen
  4. lumberwood
  5. lumberwoods
  6. lumbery
  7. lumberyard
  8. lumberyards
  9. lumbi
  10. Lumbia
  11. Lumbini

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