donkey jammer

Lumbering, Slang

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the operator of a donkey engine; donkeyman.

See: puncher(def. 2)

Quotations

1930

Shall bull-cooks and donkey-punchers be checked as to whether they use a knife or a fork. . . ?

1953

I'm a donkey jammer from hell and back, / With a Humboldt yarder a "Cracker Jack". . . .

1956

. . . if . . . he didn't like the donkey puncher . . . he would roll his blanket and head for town.