boss logger

Lumbering, Esp. West

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a superintendent or manager of a logging outfit; the owner-manager of a small logging outfit.

Quotations

1908

There was a boss logger on board who had been obliged to stop work by the police--they said he had been taking logs from a pulp concession.

1942

Just because Ted was a camp-push they'd try to make out he was the same as a boss logger.