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 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 Sangliers are early risers, tasked with following lumberjacks from forest to forest in pursuit of felled trees destined for sawmills. Emily Monaco With Kat Craddock, Saveur, 9 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lumberjack
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Noun
  • 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
  • The drive honors the late lumberman and conservationist Pierce Stocking and begins just south of Glen Lake before winding upward through thick hardwood forests.
    Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 18 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Related Stories The film follows Joel Edgerton as Robert Grainier, a logger and railroad worker living in the Pacific NorthWest.
    Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 22 Dec. 2025
  • Just helping the land out, helping the loggers.
    Austen Erblat, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2025

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“Lumberjack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lumberjack. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.

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