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 on the Web Only two months after her showdown with the armed lumberman, Mary Gibbs was living with her widowed mother Susan in a downtown Minneapolis apartment. Curt Brown, Star Tribune, 5 Dec. 2020 The lumberman crowded in next, becoming the second white man to catch a fatal load of buckshot. Craig Pittman, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Jan. 2023 For one of Eric’s distant relatives, a lumberman named Moses Grandy, the swamp was at once the site of his bondage and the nexus of his freedom. Seyward Darby, Longreads, 13 Apr. 2022 The first of the two homes, known as Indian Spring, was built by Ms. Arsht about 20 years ago, on land once owned by Ziegfeld Follies star Peggy Hopkins Joyce and her then-husband, millionaire lumberman James Stanley Joyce. Katherine Clarke, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2022 See all Example Sentences for lumberman 

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“Lumberman.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lumberman. Accessed 16 Sep. 2024.

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