lumberman
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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 unanimously agreed it should be Joey Webber, 37, a gregarious, dynamic lumberman by trade hailing from the Oregon town of Philomath.
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
"Good lecture, that," muttered the lumberman when the two were at the bin.
From The Homesteader A Novel by Oscar Micheaux
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
Foresters say that a sturdy tree can be defoliated three years in a row without losing its poise, so the grumbling heard here thus far is not of board feet lost to lumbermen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Shrimpers from Southport on the coast and lumbermen from west Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains turned up in Raleigh to root for the Wolfpack.
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
