Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who fells trees and transports the timber to a mill; a logger.
- n. A short, warm outer jacket. Also called lumber jacket.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who works in a logging-camp.
Wiktionary
- n. a person whose work is to fell trees.
- n. a lumberjacket.
- v. transitive To work as a lumberjack, cutting down trees.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. a person who works at lumbering; a lumberman.
- n. (Zool.), Canadian The grey jay.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person who fells trees
- n. a short warm outer jacket
Etymologies
- From lumber and jack. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“We always did wonder about your 'lumberjack' shirts Niles!”
“Canadian "lumberjack" named Vincent became the base, the machine gun being fired from his back.”
“When it came to the bidding countries media expo he'd swapped his casual 'lumberjack' attire for an expensive designer suit as he joined England coach Fabio Capello and England's bid leader Lord Triesman.”
“I have only written a handful of carefully written Yelp reviews, and none of them feature spam-worthy words like "lumberjack", "rolex", or "viagra".”
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“Just because a lumberjack is a beast is no reason that a college man is all right because he's less of”
“You will be called a lumberjack -- a social pariah.”
“I agree that Harris (admittedly) used sexist language in his article, although I do believe his claim that he would have used sexist language about a male candidate with similar interests / beliefs (i.e. "lumberjack" and”
“Seventy-five thousand dollars' worth of steel, that's my guess," said the 42-year-old former lumberjack, who had been living almost full time on Barge 202, as authorities dubbed the rusting steel slab bobbing in a channel 82 miles east of Portland, Ore.”
The Wall Street Journal: Living Alone on a Steel Barge Clearly Has a Downside
“This wasn't just a flimsy army surplus store fake leather boot; this was a hardcore Harley Davidson reinforced with a steel shank for arch support boot that knocked Duncan over in a swift straight and flat against his back way that would make a lumberjack proud.”
“Just days after leading his college team to an exhilarating win at the 2005 Cradle of Forestry Woodsman Meet lumberjack competition, Nichols sustained a severe spinal cord injury in the accident that left him without the use of his legs.”
USA Today: North Carolina man aims to skydive without use of his legs
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘lumberjack’.
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Chop
dhar, chop, ax, cleaver, chopfallen, dolabriform, securiform, dolabrate, barong, machete, froe, guloc and 44 more...
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Job names
accountant, salesman, actor, galley slave, actress, captain, lumberjack, janitor, judge, policeman, reporter, anchor and 7 more...
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Monty Python words
inquisition, spanish, spam, parrot, silly, walking, yes it is, no it isn't, argument, clinic, ping!, sperm and 49 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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Keeping Secrets
Words of 10 letters, all different, can be used for encrypting, pretty securely, such things as PINs and passwords. The fly in the ointment, for me, in keeping track of them is I've got to write '...
lumberjack, birthplace, whiskeybar, vanquished, metaphysic, precaution, quizmaster, dumbwaiter, thumbscrew, blacksmith, wholegrain, wanderlust and 105 more...
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Archaic Occupations
Some of these professions still exist today but the word for them has changed; some (mason or boatswain, for example), are still in use but are included for their rich historical associations. Som...
yeoman, summoner, chandler, ostler, carter, chapman, slaver, mason, cordwainer, cooper, glazier, dyer and 187 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibcock, bibliobibuli, biffy, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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Baby, It's Cold Outside!
Do as your mom says and put on a jacket.
frock coat, doublet, reefer, cutaway, morning coat, tailcoat, dinner jacket, smoking jacket, juste-au-corps, jerkin, basque, spencer and 134 more...
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fliti's Words
panache, mushaboom, aubergine, serpentine, glimpse, schadenfreude, syzygy, plethora, zeitgeist, defenestrate, callipygian, ubiquitous and 239 more...
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Kaichi's Wordie Darlings, or I'm a Lo...
persnickety, discombobulated, braggadoccio, anthropomorphous, antelucan, confluxible, anomalous, poseur, gallivant, poppycock, falderal, gewgaw and 705 more...
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jacksmynde's Words
flippant, areola, uvula, bespectacled, hussy, penchant, predilection, sojourn, frivolous, stipend, enamoured, smitten and 30 more...
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Words that remind me of Monty Python
shrubbery, cheese, lumberjack, silly, confusion, ministry, spam, fish, python, monty, knight, the comfy chair and 15 more...
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jack-of-all-trades
jack daniels, jack frost, jack russell, union jack, monterey jack, jack sprat, little jack horner, cracker jack, jack the ripper, jack rose, whiskey jack, jack rabbit and 69 more...
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Yet Another Monty Python list
I can't help it. I have to add another Monty Python list. I blame it on the word newt showing up. Suggestions Welcome!
newt, european, african, swallow, argument, clinic, dead parrot, fjords, pining, oppressed, spam, larch and 24 more...
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L is for La Ti Da
My L Words
la ti da, lady, lady killer, lagoon, lazybones, leapfrog, lederhosen, librarian, library, lickety-split, lion-hearted, lionhearted and 34 more...
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