lumbermen
- plural of lumberman.
Example Sentences
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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
According to Harrison Ngau, a Sarawak native being held under house arrest for taking part in antilogging protests, some forests have been excised from protected lands to open them up to the lumbermen.
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
