DCHP-1 Online

lumbering

• 1 n. the business or occupation of felling and sawing trees and of transporting them to sawmills, lumberyards, etc.

  See also: logging (def. 2)  

  • The terms lumberer and lumbering relating to the felling and hauling of timber are apparently giving way to logger and logging. In earlier use, the first set of terms was typical of the East.

• 2 n. the wide field of exploiting forest products, including logging, milling, etc.

  • In this dictionary, the label Lumbering is used with reference to this wide area.