as in lumberman
a person whose job is to cut down trees the sawmill gets most of its business from the lumberjacks up north

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Recent Examples of lumberjack Tracing Josiah’s trajectory from lumberjack to shipyard riveter to ambitious serviceman, Wang offers a protagonist of unflappable morality and decency. The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025 Miller explores Minnesota’s history through his music, featuring songs from lumberjacks, Great Lakes sailors, railroad workers, and farmers. Jacqueline Devine, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025 From the moment his sketch of a laughing lumberjack was featured in the Spring 1957 issue of Physique Pictorial, his drawings cast an outsize, phallic shadow on all other erotica; his influence burst past the gay community, spilling into the mainstream and culminating in a 2017 biopic. Chris Erik Thomas, Them, 10 Feb. 2025 Million is a burly former lumberjack from Weaverville. Ariane Lange, Sacramento Bee, 26 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lumberjack

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“Lumberjack.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lumberjack. Accessed 24 Mar. 2025.

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