lumbermen

noun

plural of lumberman
as in loggers
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 lumbermen 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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lumbermen
  1. loggers
  2. lumberjacks
Noun
  • For decades, loggers and environmentalists have clashed over the fate of its stately redwoods.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Twenty years before her great-grandfather opened the boat tours, the waterway was a highway for loggers, but the logjam of 1886 was a doozy.
    — John Lauritsen, CBS News, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of loggers
Noun
  • Three times a day on the Lawn, Lee LeCaptain and his crew of touring lumberjacks are performing feats of logrolling, axe-throwing and other tricks involving wood and sharp objects.
    — Israel Schuman, Des Moines Register, 18 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
Definition of lumberjacks

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