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lumberer

• 1 n. an owner or manager of a company engaged in lumbering (def. 2).

  See also: lumberman (def. 1a)  

  • 1824  (1833)  Where would you find labourers or hired men if the lumberers did not bring people into this country?
  • 1896  The lumberers and their hands soon discovered the quality of the lands, and settlements followed.

• 2 n. [Edit specific label] a person whose occupation is logging.

  See also: logger (def. 1)  lumbering (def. 1)  

  • This term is being displaced by logger. See note at lumbering (def. 1).

  • 1826  In the North West, we understand, the fires have been greatest in the vicinity of the little Sevogle, where many excellent groves of timber were untouched by the axe of the Lumberer.
  • 1846  The lumberers, who are the cutters and conveyors of timber, pass a short and excited existence.
  • 1933  "Did you notice, Sir . . . any indications on our lake of that singular human species, calling themselves 'lumberers'?"