road-maker

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

1891

. . . he would much rather be a chopper, or teamster, or road maker. . . .

1961

The head-swamper or road-maker extended the roads into the forest as work progressed so teamsters could haul back to the roll-way.