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lumberjack

[luhm-ber-jak] / ˈlʌm bərˌdʒæk /


NOUN
wood cutter
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Wanted to get my hands on it, couldn’t, and I’m happy to say that it’s good that I didn’t get my big fat lumberjack hands on it then.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 8, 2026

After ogling old cars, lean into nostalgia in the Meadow Gold District, dotted with retro shops and “muffler men,” giant fiberglass statues of a lumberjack, a cowboy and more.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 20, 2025

Duffy, a former Republican congressman and Fox Business anchor, is also a former world champion lumberjack speed climber and cast member of “The Real World: Boston.”

From Salon Oct. 27, 2025

"The picture showed him with a chainsaw and he was in what you'd call lumberjack gear," Mr Donald said.

From BBC Jul. 12, 2025

“Well, I can’t be a lumberjack, Ma. I got this dead tree of my own.”

From "Worth" by A. LaFaye

Deadfall is a particularly thorny problem, and the club’s latter-day lumberjacks head out with chain saws in tow to remove trees upward of 4 feet in diameter.

From Seattle Times Dec. 15, 2023

The word “timberbeast” appeared for the first time in The Times yesterday in a story about lumberjacks.

From New York Times Dec. 29, 2022

Dinner: Impossible Robert Irvine is in the forests near Mackinaw City, Mich., to create a Paul Bunyan-sized dinner for 50 lumberjacks and a dish for timber show guests.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 19, 2021

But along with the lightkeepers’ journals and the usual suspects like Stevenson and Coleridge, and looking at interviews with lumberjacks from the period, we came across the work of Sarah Orne Jewett.

From Slate Oct. 22, 2019

It’s not like we were lumberjacks or anything.

From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie




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