timberman
noun
a person who prepares, erects, and maintains mine timbers.
timbermen
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pluralof timberman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2016
If fire has cleaned out all mature, seed-bearing trees, the timbermen do their own planting.
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
An immediate remedy proposed for timbermen is substitution of a single "severance tax" of 10% at cutting.
From Time Magazine Archive
During the last year for which I have figures the National forests were used by 22,000 cattlemen with their herds, 5,000 sheepmen with their flocks, 5,000 timbermen with their crews, and 45,000 miners.
From Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 by United States. National Conservation Congress
