timberman
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of timberman
late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; see origin at timber, man
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The concept dates to 1917, when a wealthy Michigan timberman named Charles Lathrop Pack started the National War Garden Commission, according to the World War I Museum and Memorial in Kansas City.
From Salon ● Apr. 1, 2025
Born in Alder Gulch, Mont, in 1869, son of a well-to-do timberman, Thompson went to school at Exeter, was popular but undistinguished, formed a friendship with Thomas W. Lament that lasted all his life.
From Time Magazine Archive
The northwestern timberman approves all measures that will give the greatest number of people the greatest permanent opportunity to profit by the fullest use and least waste of all our resources.
From Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 by United States. National Conservation Congress
He could carpenter anywhere, 108 and if he’s as smart a timberman as he is millwright, will make good.
From The Plunderer by Duer, Douglas
"If he holds his gait, he'll be a big timberman before you know it."
From Big Timber A Story of the Northwest by Sinclair, Bertrand W.
Proulx presents a thrilling, 300-year saga about the vast forests and the rapacious timbermen who enabled the United States to conquer the world.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2016
Though timbermen have only recently realized it, the black bear is a major threat to lumbering.
From Time Magazine Archive
When timbermen tried to go on their own lands, they were seized by the officious Marine guards of the camp and escorted off by the seat of the pants.
From Time Magazine Archive
If fire has cleaned out all mature, seed-bearing trees, the timbermen do their own planting.
From Time Magazine Archive
Picked bands of firemen and timbermen descended first, with Madan at their head.
From Sir George Tressady — Volume II by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
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