bushworker

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a person who works in the bush, especially a logger or pulpcutter.

Quotations

1913

[Bushwhacker is] a term occasionally used to denote a ne'er-do-well bush-worker. . . .

1947

This organization . . . spoke the plain and to-the-point language of the . . . bushworkers across the province.

1964

[He was] one of the three Indian bushworkers believed to have been drowned in Paquette Lake Monday. . . .