DCHP-3

master lumberer

Maritimes, Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an owner or manager of a company engaged in lumbering (def. 2).

See: lumbering(def. 2),lumberman(def. 1a)

Quotations

1832
[They are] hired by a master lumberer, who pays them wages and finds them in provisions. . . .
1849
After saluting the master lumberer, who was superintending his sturdy people at work among the logs, rafting them, with their piked poles, or gaffs, and handspikes, I asked him what quantity of timber . . . had gone down this spring. . . .