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chopper

• 1 n. a man employed to fell trees and clear bush land for cultivation.

  • 1828  (1832)  A good chopper will chop an acre of moderately heavy timber in a week. . . .
  • 1960  Hitherto he had had local fame [in Upper Canada] as a "chopper"--a mighty man with an axe. . . .

• 2 n. Lumbering a skilled axeman.

  See also: axeman  

  • 1854  The hay cutters then proceed to the timber grove to make ready for the choppers, hewers and scorers. . . .
  • 1881  About fifty choppers arrived by Wednesday's train, en route for the tie camps.
  • 1964  Felling was done with an axe by men called choppers.