Fly-fishing in a river can mean cumbersome gear, icy water and fast currents.
They came at night in a so-called midget submarine, swimming the final distance with their cumbersome gear — sidearms, sample tubes, augur screws, waterproof writing pads, flasks of brandy.
The fact that the R.C.A. Building has a flat roof is a great advantage for their cumbersome gear, such as the twenty-foot radar dome they've installed up there.
If it weren't for the tropical fish darting around their cumbersome scuba gear, you'd swear they were tending a shrubbery.
Such problems are cumbersome in gear transmissions in which acoustic performance is a determining design factor, such as in car applications.
They were on foot, and their gear was horribly cumbersome.
Then, said Jackie Nowell, health and safety officer for the United Food and Commercial Workers, which has organized some poultry plants, when a 10-minute rest break arrives, they use up the entire time just walking across cavernous plant floors and taking off their cumbersome rubber smocks and protective gear -- forget about getting to a toilet.
But the weight will be added to an already cumbersome array of protective clothing and gear that has grown heavier in recent years and is worn in extreme heat.
The appeal of a motorbike you can ride without having to heap on layers of protective gear, including a huge cumbersome helmet, is indeed an amazing proposition.
To supersede these, women did whatever was necessary sometimes dressing as men and stowing away in ships, later climbing mountains in cumbersome petticoats or eventually designing their own gear.
