DCHP-2

lumberman DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• 1a n.

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

  See also: lumberer (def. 1)  lumbering (def. 2)  timberman  

  • 1823  The crown ought to dispose of timber to honest lumbermen at one farthing per foot.
  • 1829  Lumbermen and Shantymen are nearly synonymous; with this difference, that the former are generally the masters, or, what the Canadians call, the Bourgeois of the latter.
  • 1897  The immense value of this industry, also comparatively new, is beginning to interest eastern lumbermen both in Canada and the States.
  • 1963  The old-time lumber man plundered the forest. . . .

• 1b n.

  a lumbering company as an entity.

  • 1964  Take notice that _{CANADIAN COLLIERIES RESOURCES LIMITED} of Vancouver, B.C. occupation Lumberman intends to apply for a lease of the following lands. . . .

• 2 n.

  a person whose occupation is logging.

  See also: logger (def. 1)  

  • 1824  The people employed in what they call The Lumber Trade, that is in preparing the timber in this country for shipment, are denominated Lumber Men; and possess a rather doubtful character in many parts of the country. . . .
  • 1839  The Governor of New Brunswick has sent an agent to the Arrostook, to persuade the lumbermen there to give up the arms stolen from the Arsenal, and to return as peaceable citizens and loyal subjects of the Queen.
  • 1900  Somewhere above me I knew that a crew of lumbermen were at work. . . .
  • 1958  . . . the roads are little more than bush trails, seldom travelled except by lumbermen. . . .
  • 1966  Some of the jobs most suitable for Indians are . . . fire rangers, timber cruisers, scalers . . . lumbermen, game wardens . . . park wardens and guides. . . .

• 3 † n.

  See timber ship quote.

  See also: timber ship  

  • 1912  . . . liner, tramp, fisher, lumberman, geordie, greaser was all the same to him.