timberjack

Lumbering

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a person whose occupation is logging.

See: logger(def. 1)

Quotations

1916

He was a timberjack in the hardwood bush of western Ontario. . . .

1928

But Martin Legrand had the frequent opportunity to meet one or two of those particularly vicious timber jacks of the Canadian woods. . . .

1953

"You boys hired out to be timberjacks. That's good enough for me."