Lumbered

Tom lumbered along like an elephant.

The rover lumbered on the lonely sulfurous ground of the volcanic moon Io.

The rover lumbered across the dusty red plain on Mars.

Of course, we're the ones lumbered with the costs yet again.

My employer has lumbered me with a difficult job.

‘And you're going to marry her, are you? Or have you knocked her up?’ ‘No. Neither.’ ‘So you’re just going out? You’re not lumbered?’

But I knew that he was married only a week ago, and never dreamt that he would leave his pretty wife to poke his nose into Banks's crib. What an infernal oversight on my part! And now — here I am, regularly lumbered; and all the swag arising from Kate Wilmot's business is in the hands of that canting sneak Banks! Damnation to Richard Markham! I shall swing for this if I don't take precious good care.