road-cutter

Lumbering, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a logger employed in cutting roads and, often, in trimming branches from felled trees.

See: swamper(def. 1)

Quotations

1854

A cheaper class of men, generally the "greenhorns," are employed as road cutters.

1896

. . . how delightful is that operation, to a fellow that began his career as a cook or road cutter in a shanty. . . .

1961

Each gang working together in the wood--logmakers, road cutters . . . --took a lunch in a cotton bag.