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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.

  • 1821  (1960)  Without a little spirits, the fatigue of lumbering would be intolerable.
  • 1847  The Government ought to survey no Lumbering territory; that is, to reserve and conserve the pine limits for the uses to which they are now applied, and in no case interfere with the present system of licensing.
  • 1891  "Whether I like lumbering or not, I'm going to stick out the winter. . . ."
  • 1964  The enormous lumbering operations carried on upon the St. John River and its tributaries in modern times had their small beginning with that load.

• 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.

  • 1892  (1908)  Lumbering, in all its branches, stands next to agriculture in importance. . . .
  • 1926  (1926)  I learned from the manager of one of the larger lumbering firms at Quebec that the annual demand is only for about 2,000 pieces. . . .
  • 1946  . . . the exploitive urge had been applied . . . in the fur trade, in lumbering, ship-building and especially in the Montreal complex of forwarding and finance. . . .