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getting around. — The Shadow of the Wind;<br />

unmanageable = ponderous = lumbering > lumber = timber {tone} = pound =<br />

move clumsily<br />

• (unmanageable)- difficult or impossible to manage; It is unmanageable, and<br />

likely to become the sport of the element in which it moves. — Aeroplanes and<br />

Dirigibles of War;<br />

• (ponderous)- of great weight; heavy; massive, ( ; ; );<br />

The movement was ponderous, as if the arm had been made of lead. — Tales<br />

Of Hearsay;<br />

• (lumber)- to move clumsily or heavily, esp. from great or ponderous bulk,<br />

( ); She lumbered and heaved herself, until she<br />

found a place where something - the sand, the temperature - seemed right;<br />

• to cut timber and prepare it for market,( );<br />

• to become useless or to be stored away as useless, (<br />

; );<br />

• (timber)- wood used as a building material; lumber; Beyond the timber was<br />

a ladder which led up to a round hole in the stone. — 030 - Spook Hole;<br />

• (music) the distinctive property of a complex sound (a voice or noise or<br />

musical sound);<br />

• (pound)- move heavily or clumsily;<br />

• to pulsate rapidly and heavily; throb;<br />

pound {strike heavily = ram} : batter = buffet {meal}<br />

• (ram)- strike or drive against with a heavy impact;<br />

• (batter)- strike against forcefully;<br />

• (buffet)- strike against forcefully;<br />

• a meal set out on a buffet at which guests help themselves;

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