lumber off

to move or lope away heavily and awkwardly. The frightened bear lumbered off, and we left in a hurry. He lumbered off, leaving us there alone.

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At the end of the frenetic day they will lumber off, bagged down with their prizes.

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Plain slicing is more like taking a piece of lumber off of a log, he explained.

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And, that's what I did; I pulled lumber off of a chain.

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After a voracious race to eat and grow as much as possible, the blobby almost-adults lumber off to go through metamorphosis, which turns a pale wormy cylinder of a larva into a winged adult.

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I don't think you'll be able to say that about the Chawners when they lumber off this mortal coil.

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In the fall of 2007, Webster decided to enforce all the terms of the 55-page credit agreement and cut Bradley Lumber off from the line of credit.