DCHP-3

raftsman

Lumbering, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a person employed in the rafting (def. 1) of timber.

See: rafter ((v.))(def. 1),rafting(def. 1)

Quotations

1776
A small current begins here, and the raftsmen are not obliged to row.
1818
He gives the Canadian raftsmen a bad character for idleness . . . and says, that in the greatest dangers, such as passing rapids, they will leave their oars, and fall on their knees to pray to some favourite saint!
1961
By this date there [was] a grist mill which provided flour for the raftsmen and shantymen. . . .