lumberman
AmericanGender
See -man.
Etymology
Origin of lumberman
Example Sentences
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Soliciting investment from a wealthy Port Blakely lumberman, Capt. William Renton, he founded the Renton Coal Mine, soon providing right of way for the nascent Seattle-Walla Walla Railroad.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2023
A salesman pulls out all the stops in a last-ditch effort to sell his latest tractor to an old-fashioned lumberman.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2020
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
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
That was what Mr. Reynolds, the lumberman, was going to do about Tom Jonah.
From The Corner House Girls Under Canvas How they reached Pleasant Cove and what happened afterward by Hill, Grace Brooks
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