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road-cutter Lumbering, Hist.

• n. a logger employed in cutting roads and, often, in trimming branches from felled trees.

  See also: swamper (def. 1)  

  • 1854  A cheaper class of men, generally the "greenhorns," are employed as road cutters.
  • 1896  . . . how delightful is that operation, to a fellow that began his career as a cook or road cutter in a shanty. . . .
  • 1961  Each gang working together in the wood--logmakers, road cutters . . . --took a lunch in a cotton bag.