timber cruiser

American  

noun

1. cruiser.

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Etymology

Origin of timber cruiser

An Americanism dating back to 1890–95

Example Sentences

"You hear trees falling constantly, but you can't see them through the smoke," says Bill Thompson, 51, a timber cruiser from Salem, Ore. "It gets real spooky out here."

From Time Magazine Archive

A timber cruiser in Knott County, Kentucky, once came upon an old woman chopping firewood beside the door of her one-room cabin.

From Blue Ridge Country by Caldwell, Erskine

So those who live upon the ocean come to possess that which they will not barter for ease, and so the timber cruiser shortens his visit to town.

From Minstrel Weather by Storm, Marian

I am really going to confer with an old timber cruiser about the standing timber contracted for by the Neven Lumber Company before Frank Birdsall died.

From The Corner House Girls Snowbound by Hill, Grace Brooks

Ike M’Graw, the timber cruiser, was an excellent weather prophet; and this was proved to be a fact before all of those at Red Deer Lodge had gone to bed on this first night.

From The Corner House Girls Snowbound by Hill, Grace Brooks