DCHP-3

timberman

Lumbering
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

an owner or manager of a company engaged in lumbering (def. 2).

See: lumbering(def. 2),lumberman(esp. def. 1a)

Quotations

1889
The trees, where the timbermen have not culled out the finest, are most picturesque.
1945
The timber-man . . . picked out the most heavily forested land he could find, provided the timber could be got to the water.
1963
This is a statement made by people who should be in a position to know. Among them is J. E. Duffy, a prominent timberman who recently became interested in timber limits at Quatsino.