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 book’s cast includes boarding-school jocks, fetishists in full-body rubber suits, lonely lumberjacks going courting in the depths of winter. Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 17 Mar. 2025 Plaid can be preppy, when seen in suiting, or for the lumberjack in a flannel shirt. Christina Holevas, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2025 In the title story, a lumberjack wants to playact as a woman in a bizarre ritual during which men vie for one another’s attention by pinning a cloth triangle to their groins. Grace Byron, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025 Options are limited for our tender lumberjack. Grace Byron, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lumberjack
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Noun
  • In 1960, a lumberman from North Carolina, Jack Taylor, bought the ranch and closed access to the residents of the valley with land grant rights.
    Elise Schmelzer, Hartford Courant, 6 May 2024
  • In 1960, a lumberman from North Carolina, Jack Taylor, bought the ranch and closed access to the residents of the valley with land grant rights.
    Elise Schmelzer, The Denver Post, 5 May 2024
Noun
  • Orick Chamber of Commerce President Donna Hufford, whose family has lived in Orick for generations, said most of the loggers who took part in the protest have moved away or died.
    Hailey Branson-Potts, Los Angeles Times, 9 Jan. 2025
  • The story claimed that two loggers felled a hollow tree and were shocked to find a body inside.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024

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“Lumberjack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lumberjack. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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