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lumberman

American  
[luhm-ber-muhn] / ˈlʌm bər mən /

noun

  • lumbermen
    plural
  1. a person who deals in lumber.

  2. lumberjack.


Gender

See -man.

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Etymology

Origin of lumberman

An Americanism dating back to 1810–20; lumber 1 + man

Example Sentences

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Her father, Joshua Coleman, had farmed and worked as a lumberman, and, in the 1930s, was employed at the local upmarket resort, the Greenbrier.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 24, 2020

They unanimously agreed it should be Joey Webber, 37, a gregarious, dynamic lumberman by trade hailing from the Oregon town of Philomath.

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2017

And the street where 9-year-old George Weyerhaeuser, son of a prominent lumberman, was kidnapped in 1935.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2016

Born in Harrison, Ark., on May 4, 1922, he was the son of Arthur Hammerschmidt, a lumberman, and the former Junie Taylor, a homemaker.

From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2015

The white oak has no rival for first place in the esteem of tree-lover and lumberman.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers

In this once working-class city of lumbermen and Boeing machinists, the median home price is now $535,000, a 19 percent increase since March 2014, and bidding wars are common.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2015

Local trade and craft guilds, from lumbermen to haberdashers, marked territory and sharpened rivalries.

From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2013

But what is laudable in Eugene is anathema to the lumbermen in the rest of the district.

From Time Magazine Archive

Latest case in point is that of the Pacific Northwest's softwood lumber industry, which has been losing its traditional East Coast markets at a spectacular rate to Canadian lumbermen in British Columbia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Callow had been a logger in his younger years, and like most lumbermen he believed that cedar was only good for making shakes and shingles.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

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