DCHP-3

wood-ranger

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n. — Lumbering, Obs.

See cruiser (def. 1) 1942 quote.

See: cruiser(def. 1)

Quotations

1842
The house of a person who was acting as a kind of wood ranger to the party was set fire to in the night and himself and family narrowly escaped perishing.
1891
An open space . . . presented itself to the keen eye of the woodranger traversing the trackless wastes of forest as a fine site for a lumber camp.
2n. — Fur Trade, Hist.

an unlicensed trader who ranged the forest in search of furs.

See: coureur de bois(def. 1)

Quotations

1883
The inland voyageurs rejoiced in the name "coureurs des bois" or wood rangers, going as they did to Athabasca and the Rocky Mountains.
1905
The others . . . became the forerunners of the coureurs de bois, or wood rangers, who made the labours of the missionaries doubly difficult by their disorders and evil example.
1908
Taking on board one hundred and twenty woodrangers, Iberville sailed from Quebec on August 10, 1694.