timber-cruiser

Lumbering

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See cruiser (def. 1) 1942 quote.

See: cruiser(def. 1)

Quotations

1908

Now Billy Hewlitt was a "timber cruiser"--a man [who] sought for forest timber, to stake it. . . .

1947

The man who determined the direction and extent of new operations was the timber cruiser.

1965

One timber cruiser of my acquaintance ran across an old cabin far in the bushland.