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lumberman

[luhm-ber-muhn] / ˈlʌm bər mən /
NOUN
lumberjack
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Her father, Joshua Coleman, had farmed and worked as a lumberman, and, in the 1930s, was employed at the local upmarket resort, the Greenbrier.

From The Guardian Feb. 24, 2020

They told him they needed somebody to fire up the crowd and that his muscular build fit the image of the lumberman they were looking for.

From Seattle Times May 24, 2017

And the street where 9-year-old George Weyerhaeuser, son of a prominent lumberman, was kidnapped in 1935.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 25, 2016

Born in Harrison, Ark., on May 4, 1922, he was the son of Arthur Hammerschmidt, a lumberman, and the former Junie Taylor, a homemaker.

From New York Times Apr. 2, 2015

Is a farmer and lumberman, and has also been a pilot for several years on the Alleghany River.

From Descriptive Catalogue of Photographs of North American Indians by W. H. Jackson

In this once working-class city of lumbermen and Boeing machinists, the median home price is now $535,000, a 19 percent increase since March 2014, and bidding wars are common.

From Salon Jul. 26, 2015

Local trade and craft guilds, from lumbermen to haberdashers, marked territory and sharpened rivalries.

From New York Times Jul. 4, 2013

According to Harrison Ngau, a Sarawak native being held under house arrest for taking part in antilogging protests, some forests have been excised from protected lands to open them up to the lumbermen.

From Time Magazine Archive

This means that Pacific Northwest lumbermen must pay $36 per 1,000 board feet to ship green lumber to East Coast ports in U.S. vessels, while Canadian lumbermen pay as little as $26 on foreign-flag freighters.

From Time Magazine Archive

Callow had been a logger in his younger years, and like most lumbermen he believed that cedar was only good for making shakes and shingles.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown




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