lumberjacks

Definition of lumberjacksnext
plural of lumberjack
as in lumbermen
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 lumberjacks The company was created to provide durable and functional garments for hunters, lumberjacks and railway workers. Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 12 Nov. 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
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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
Noun
  • By the early 20th century, after several centuries of rape, disease, enslavement, and land confiscation by colonizers, rubber barons, and loggers, their numbers had been reduced to 300.
    Stanley Stewart, Travel + Leisure, 10 Jan. 2026
  • Just helping the land out, helping the loggers.
    Austen Erblat, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2025

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

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