Definition of lumberjacknext
as in lumberman
a person whose job is to cut down trees the sawmill gets most of its business from the lumberjacks up north

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Recent Examples of lumberjack The Kansas City Chiefs tight end appeared to lean in even deeper to the buzz with his lumberjack-style pregame tunnel fits. Brittany Talarico, PEOPLE, 4 Nov. 2025 Musk also took a swipe at Duffy’s status as a world champion lumberjack speed climber. Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 24 Oct. 2025 Both outlets also reported that Duffy may seek to fold NASA into the Department of Transportation, an agency also led by the former lumberjack and reality TV star. Mike Wall, Space.com, 22 Oct. 2025 Gudbranson rose to his skates and gave Hartman a lumberjack cross-check into the back. Aaron Portzline, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lumberjack
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Noun
  • The history of gubernatorial candidates and winners in Wisconsin is replete with mayors, merchants, lawyers, lumbermen, publishers, educators, industrialists, secretaries of state, attorneys general and lieutenant governors.
    Craig Gilbert, jsonline.com, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Where once these trees stood in the island of Negros, sugarcane now dominates, all benefiting the hacenderos who welcomed the American lumbermen to clear the forests for later agricultural conversion.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 19 Nov. 2025
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  • At the dawn of the 20th century, a logger played by Joel Edgerton tromps through the woods cutting down timber that will build a country which is rapidly leaving him behind.
    Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2026
  • His dad, a former logger, and his mom, a former schoolteacher, founded West Wind in 2000.
    Stephanie Pearson, Outside, 14 Jan. 2026

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“Lumberjack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lumberjack. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.

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