lumberer
- a word derived from lumber.
Example Sentences
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In this oppressive transaction he had a willing coadjutor in the person of William Yuill, a lumberer at the time, but since he became a federal soldier and perished in the late American civil war.
From The Last Laird of MacNab An Episode in the Settlement of MacNab Township, Upper Canada by Various
Such a rebuff would not have embarrassed Bertie, nor awakened in him a slumbering conscience, as it did in this young lumberer, who was ridiculous enough to be in earnest in his infidelity.
From Bluebell A Novel by Huddleston, Mrs. George Croft
Hector then told the old lumberer how long they had been separated from their families, and by what sad accident they had been deprived of the society of their beloved sister.
From Canadian Crusoes by Traill, Catharine Parr Strickland
As I closed the front door and stepped out upon the sidewalk, a tall man lounged across to me from the doorway of a saloon across the road—a lumberer, by his dress.
From Wandering Heath by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
Settler, never become a lumberer, if you can avoid it.
From Canada and the Canadians Volume I by Bonnycastle, Richard Henry
