timberman

[tim-ber-muhn]

noun

plural

timbermen 

1. a person who prepares, erects, and maintains mine timbers.

timberman

/ ˈtɪmbəmən /

noun

1. Also called: timberman beetle. any of various longicorn beetles that have destructive wood-eating larvae

Word History and Origins

Origin of timberman¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; timber, man

Example Sentences

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.

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Pattinson plays a former timberman named Ephraim Winslow, who is just looking for an honest wage doing chores and manual labor under Thomas’s supervision.

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Ray was born in Jackson County one of 17 kids, his father a timberman, he said they never had much money.

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Proulx presents a thrilling, 300-year saga about the vast forests and the rapacious timbermen who enabled the United States to conquer the world.

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At a few places there were narrow footpaths, subterranean in the quality of their light, made by timbermen when searching for suitable trees for the saw-mill.

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