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timber-beast Lumbering, Slang 
n. a person whose occupation is logging.
See also: logger (def. 1)
- 1919 A large number of our city folk imagine that a "timber beast" has just about as much need for a brain as a Canadian soldier in Siberia has for refrigeration machinery.
- 1942 (1946) "You want to watch it," Alec said, "or that kid will turn out a worse timber beast than his dad."
- 1966 In the early days of the industry these men were rough, tough, and a wild, usually uneducated class, some of whom with actual pride gave to themselves the name TIMBER BEASTS.
- 1919 A large number of our city folk imagine that a "timber beast" has just about as much need for a brain as a Canadian soldier in Siberia has for refrigeration machinery.