Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who trades in lumber.
- noun A lumberjack or logger.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
lumberer . - noun One who deals in lumber.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun U.S. One who is engaged in lumbering as a business or employment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A man involved in the production or sale of
lumber . - noun a
lumberjack , alogger
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who fells trees
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Examples
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Praise be, my regular customers knew I wasn't the kind of lumberman who tries to crawl out of filling low-priced orders after the market has gone up.
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Not only is the farmer benefited by the creation of a demand for his products, but the miner, the lumberman and the freighter.
The Principles of the Republican Party: A Rare Unpublished Jack London Essay 2010
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"Winsor Zenic McCay was born at Spring Lake, Mich., where his father was a lumberman."
Winsor McCay Steve 2009
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Somebody well-matched Credit card! urinate anyone predominate summarily a lumberman biathlete?
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He was found on the streets of Chicago as an infant, with his right hand horrifyingly cut off, and, after a bleak childhood in an orphanage, arrives at the Limberlost, where a fatherly lumberman named McLean, a partner in a Grand Rapids lumber company, hires him to patrol the trail and guard the valuable trees that are soon to become Grand Rapids furniture:
Catacomb Efreet 2009
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Skin clothing is then the only thing that is of any use; but at this time of year, when the sun is above the horizon for the whole twenty-four hours, one can go for a long time without being more heavily clad than a lumberman working in the woods.
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ROLLINS: Well, I think the message is you're talking about working people and I think what they're going to do today is they've got a guy who's a lumberman, they have a whole variety of working people that they're going to identify beyond Joe.
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In an article, “The Home Builder Conserves,” he admonished people, before they castigated the “wasteful lumberman,” to think about how their own arbitrary demands as consumers and home builders cause waste.
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Founded in the late 1800s by Maine's first governor, William King, and his head lumberman, King & Bartlett boasts Teddy Roosevelt's signature in its guestbook.
The Six Best (Wild) Bird Hunting Lodges in North America 2005
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The isolated life, if at times adventurous, was always harsh and ultimately meagre of reward; it was essential to work as lumberman, teamster or boatman to help pay one's way.
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