DCHP-2
lumberjack DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1 n.
a person whose occupation is logging.
See also: jack (def. 4) logger (def. 1)
- 1831 (1957) But my misfortunes have been brought upon me chiefly by an incorrigible, though perhaps a useful, race of mortals called LUMBERJACKS, whom, however, i would name the Cossacks of Upper Canada, who, having been reared among the oaks and pines of the wild forest, have never been subjected to the salutary restraint of laws.
- 1923 "Slim" signed on for the job of lumber-jack because he was sick, like Huckleberry Finn, of being civilized.
- 1964 Average earnings for lumberjacks are from $15 to $25 a day.
- 1966 All around me, in their double-decker bunks, lay sleeping lumberjacks clad in their sweaty long-handled underwear. . . .
2 n.
a gray, crestless jay, Perisoreus canadensis.
See also: Canada jay
- 1956 (1959) [The Canada jay is also called] lumberjack (From its frequenting areas where lumbering is in progress. Alta.)
- 1963 His [Canada Jay's] names, all Canadian, are: whisky jack, whisky john, moose bird, meat bird, camp robber, meat hawk, and lumberjack.
- 1831 (1957) But my misfortunes have been brought upon me chiefly by an incorrigible, though perhaps a useful, race of mortals called LUMBERJACKS, whom, however, i would name the Cossacks of Upper Canada, who, having been reared among the oaks and pines of the wild forest, have never been subjected to the salutary restraint of laws.