sawdust nobility

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a large-scale operator in lumbering (def. 2), especially in logging (def. 2).

See: logging(def. 2),lumbering(def. 2),lumber king(def. 2)

Quotations

1956

In each of these ghost towns there must have been a little group of mill and timber owners, a sawdust nobility of the Oak Falls kind. . . .