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log-roller
Lumbering, Slang, Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a logger, especially one who worked with sawlogs rather than square timber.
Quotations
1901
For the Glengarry men, who handled only square timber, despised the Murphy gang as sawlog men; "log-rollers" or "mushrats" they called them, and hated them as Irish "Papishes" and French "Crapeaux."