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timber-beast
Lumbering, Slang
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a person whose occupation is logging.
See: logger(def. 1)
Quotations
1919
A large number of our city folk imagine that a "timber beast" has just about as much need for a brain as a Canadian soldier in Siberia has for refrigeration machinery.
1942
"You want to watch it," Alec said, "or that kid will turn out a worse timber beast than his dad."
1966
In the early days of the industry these men were rough, tough, and a wild, usually uneducated class, some of whom with actual pride gave to themselves the name TIMBER BEASTS.