Definition of lumbermannext
as in logger
a person whose job is to cut down trees a lumberman who supervises the rest of the team during logging season

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Recent Examples of lumberman 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, 19 Nov. 2025 At this moment, our two guides and the lumbermen who had rescued us from the log jam came bursting out of the guides’ cabin and rushed to the bateau. Robeson Bailey, Outdoor Life, 11 June 2025 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 See All Example Sentences for lumberman
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Noun
  • The lumberjacks had used their trucks to block access to the Quebec border in protest of Canadian loggers who were stealing their jobs by working for less.
    ABC News, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026
  • Wounaan realized that loggers were willing to kill to get the rosewood.
    Chenier Carpio Opua, The Conversation, 5 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • In 1896, a local lumberjack near a small town in northeastern Wisconsin told of a bizarre green monster roaming the nearby woods.
    Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The lumberjacks had used their trucks to block access to the Quebec border in protest of Canadian loggers who were stealing their jobs by working for less.
    ABC News, ABC News, 8 Aug. 2026
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  • Utah's state forester, Jamie Barnes, told reporters that fires across the state this season had been moving in ways that had stretched Utah's firefighting capacity to its limits, with new fires beginning closer to populated areas than in previous years.
    Willem Marx, NPR, 28 June 2026
  • With the fires spread out across the state, emergency response teams could use more personnel, said state forester Jamie Barnes.
    Aria Bendix, NBC news, 27 June 2026

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“Lumberman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lumberman. Accessed 16 Aug. 2026.

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