Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A person employed or concerned in cutting limber and getting it from the forest. Also
lumberman . - noun One who lumbers clumsily about.
- noun A swindling tipster.
- noun A pawnbroker.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun U.S. One employed in lumbering, cutting, and getting logs from the forest for lumber; a lumberman.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
lumbers , who moves in a heavy and ungainly manner. - noun One who is involved in the production of
lumber .
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Examples
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Yes, the pickpocket, the card-sharper, the "lumberer," the confidence man, the blarneying beggar, and the fakir of every description laid his snares on this holy spot.
The Christian A Story Hall Caine 1892
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Indian corn and pumpkins; the brilliant orange of the latter contrasting with the charred stumps among which they grew; but more frequently the lumberer supported himself solely by his axe.
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He is a lumberer, and has a saw-mill of a very primitive kind.
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My next neighbour was a stalwart, bronzed Kentucky farmer, in a palm-leaf hat, who, strange to say, never made any demonstrations with his bowie-knife, and, having been a lumberer in these forests, pointed out all the objects of interest.
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Then I saw a lumberer taking his dinner on a rock in the river, who “touched his hat” and brought me a draught of ice-cold water, which I could hardly drink owing to the fractiousness of the horse, and gathered me some mountain pinks, which I admired.
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Wingfield said, "You will correct me if I am wrong, Caleb, but is't not so your only forays into the forest have been as a lumberer?"
A different flesh Turtledove, Harry 1988
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A log-house is the appropriate dwelling of the lumberer in the woods; but transplant it to a suburban lawn and it becomes an absurdity, and a double absurdity.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various
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In this case the master-lumberer bears the loss, and is obliged to refund the expenses incurred as best he can.
Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church
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It was too bad of Alec, for he had been engaged a year, and had already cleared (he was a lumberer) space enough in the backwoods to start a farm, and he was now on a short visit to his betrothed to report progress and pursue his suit.
Bluebell A Novel Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
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While he was a lumberer, Lincoln was in the employ of one Kirkpatrick, who "ran" a sawmill.
The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams
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