DCHP-3

lumberjack

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

a person whose occupation is logging.

See: jack(def. 4),logger(def. 1)

Quotations

1831
But my misfortunes have been brought upon me chiefly by an incorrigible, though perhaps a useful, race of mortals called LUMBERJACKS, whom, however, i would name the Cossacks of Upper Canada, who, having been reared among the oaks and pines of the wild forest, have never been subjected to the salutary restraint of laws.
1923
"Slim" signed on for the job of lumber-jack because he was sick, like Huckleberry Finn, of being civilized.
1964
Average earnings for lumberjacks are from $15 to $25 a day.
1966
All around me, in their double-decker bunks, lay sleeping lumberjacks clad in their sweaty long-handled underwear. . . .
2n.

a gray, crestless jay, Perisoreus canadensis.

Quotations

1956
[The Canada jay is also called] lumberjack (From its frequenting areas where lumbering is in progress. Alta.)
1963
His [Canada Jay's] names, all Canadian, are: whisky jack, whisky john, moose bird, meat bird, camp robber, meat hawk, and lumberjack.