lumberjack
noun
a person who works at lumbering; logger.
lumberjacks
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pluralof lumberjack.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Deadfall is a particularly thorny problem, and the club’s latter-day lumberjacks head out with chain saws in tow to remove trees upward of 4 feet in diameter.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 15, 2023
The word “timberbeast” appeared for the first time in The Times yesterday, in a story about lumberjacks.
From New York Times ● Dec. 29, 2022
Dinner: Impossible Robert Irvine is in the forests near Mackinaw City, Mich., to create a Paul Bunyan-sized dinner for 50 lumberjacks and a dish for timber show guests.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2021
Tuesday’s issues, it turns out, can be traced back to a man named Frank Isaac Wixom, a local Gilded Age mini-baron who got his start in the 1880s by operating a minstrel show for lumberjacks.
From Slate ● May 21, 2020
It’s not like we were lumberjacks or anything.
From "The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian" by Sherman Alexie
