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lumber

verb as in walk heavily, clumsily

verb as in burden

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So, Bui continued, “every year I manage to lumber my way back to London.”

Climate change, he claimed to audible gasps, was "the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world" and was lumbering European countries with expensive energy costs compared to fossil fuels.

From BBC

Sikhs, a religious minority group from India, have become a large part of America's trucking industry, helping to deliver everything from California strawberries to lumber across the country.

From BBC

According to the joint agreement, the US will apply the new 15% tariff rate on most European goods, including European semiconductor and lumber exports, from 1 September.

From BBC

Construction workers are still hauling lumber and nails, and DIY homeowners pushing carts of paint and soil.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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