DCHP-2
bushworker DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a person who works in the bush, especially a logger or pulpcutter.
See also: bushman (def. 3) woodsworker
- 1913 [Bushwhacker is] a term occasionally used to denote a ne'er-do-well bush-worker. . . .
- 1947 This organization . . . spoke the plain and to-the-point language of the . . . bushworkers across the province.
- 1964 [He was] one of the three Indian bushworkers believed to have been drowned in Paquette Lake Monday. . . .
- 1913 [Bushwhacker is] a term occasionally used to denote a ne'er-do-well bush-worker. . . .