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- noun Plural form of
timberman .
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Examples
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Carpenters, timbermen, and other artisans found themselves with more work than ever as these English aristocrats needed impressive hunting lodges to go with the vast tracts of land they purchased.
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Now with the ranchers, timbermen and miners squaring off against the environmentalists and recreationists, Washington is hovering anxiously in the middle and, as usual, infuriating everyone.
The Custer Syndrome 2008
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Byzantium lacked the resources to claim much in the way of sovereignty, so the port had filled with free fishermen, scrap-metal shippers, slavers, timbermen, traders, pirates, furriers and all the other honest and outlaw callings known to men.
The Skrayling Tree Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 2003
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Mazlin brothers were pioneer timbermen in the Atherton area of North
Mazlin's Mill 2000
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What if she had given that look to some of those whalers or timbermen in Auckland?
Once An Angel Medeiros, Teresa, 1962- 1993
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The union claimed a potential membership of 2,000 Coloured mine workers employed on the Reef as timbermen, waste packers, pipe fitters, track layers, lashers and trammers, winch drivers, pump attendants, and transport drivers - occupations which were also catered for by the white miners, union.
Class & Colour in South Africa 1850-1950 - Chapter 16 Ray Esther 1969
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The timbermen working for the Benbow Company helped.
Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies Alice B. Emerson
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She had picked up a peavey one of the timbermen had left on this bank and was using is as a staff as she watched the "freshet" start.
Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies Alice B. Emerson
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Ruth went with Mr. Hooley to the bunkhouse to hear him instruct the timbermen hired from the
Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies Alice B. Emerson
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It was a ticklish piece of work; but these timbermen were used to such jobs.
Ruth Fielding in the Great Northwest Or, The Indian Girl Star of the Movies Alice B. Emerson
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