Difference between flit and lumber
Definitions
verb
- move along rapidly and lightly; skim or dart
noun
- a sudden quick movement
- a secret move (to avoid paying debts)
Examples
[72] A flitch is a side of cured meat, in this case, pork.
Small birds flitted in the shade of the branches and bees were crawling over the red and white clover.
Washington dreamed his way along the street, his fancy flitting from grain to hogs, from hogs to banks, from banks to eyewater, from eye-water to Tennessee Land, and lingering but a feverish moment upon each of these fascinations.
Definitions
noun
- an implement used in baseball by the batter
- the wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
verb
- move heavily or clumsily
- cut lumber, as in woods and forests
Examples
In their opening and closing games England's lumbering back four were hopelessly outmanoeuvred by bursts of fast, mobile, unpredictable attacks, like tankers anchored as speedboats darted around them.
That call my slumbering life to wake to happy things.
It had been always understood, by watchful politicians, that the Repeal agitation slumbered only until the reinstalment of a Conservative administration.
