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- noun Plural form of
lumberman .
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Examples
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The so-called lumbermen had provided horses in the meanwhile.
Copper Streak Trail Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901
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It is a region of elevated sandy ridges, covered with a growth of long leaf pine, now in most sections very largely depleted by the operations of the turpentine gatherers and the lumbermen, which is being followed by a growth of scrub oaks of various species.
North Carolina and its Resources. North Carolina. Board of Agriculture. 1896
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And then, the talk and the laughter at the lieutenant's brilliant jokes, and the chaffing of the "lumbermen" over their voracious appetites!
The Man from Glengarry; a tale of the Ottawa Ralph Connor 1898
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This climatic influence, however, is probably not responsible for more than fifteen or twenty per cent of all cases, and, popular impression to the contrary notwithstanding, the liability of outdoor workers who are subject to severe exposure, such as lumbermen, fishermen, and sailors, is only slightly greater than that of indoor workers.
Preventable Diseases Woods Hutchinson 1896
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"lumbermen" bucked each other furiously, bluffing in a scandalous manner when they fought for a pot between themselves.
Copper Streak Trail Eugene Manlove Rhodes 1901
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There seemed nothing unusual about them, while they would have passed muster as fair specimens of lumbermen in any Michigan camp.
THE FAITH OF MEN 2010
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A path that now leads to Stara Kolonia Sobibór, according to the article: "a typical Polish hamlet, where clean washing flutters in the wind, farmers on old tractors rumble by and lumbermen lug tree trunks."
Dorian de Wind: I Will Shed No Tears for John Demjanjuk Dorian de Wind 2011
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Associations also opened catering to miners in Pennsylvania and lumbermen in Wisconsin in
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But others take you to the truth, to the open ground, to the clearing, if only our thinking can find this clearing, can find the right feldweg, the right forest way, a path known only to the local woodcutters, to the local lumbermen.
enowning enowning 2009
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But others take you to the truth, to the open ground, to the clearing, if only our thinking can find this clearing, can find the right feldweg, the right forest way, a path known only to the local woodcutters, to the local lumbermen.
Archive 2009-01-01 enowning 2009
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