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lumberjack

[ luhm-ber-jak ]

noun

  1. a person who works at lumbering; lumber; lumbering; logger.
  2. Canadian. the gray jay.


lumberjack

/ ˈʌəˌæ /

noun

  1. (esp in North America) a person whose work involves felling trees, transporting the timber, etc
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of lumberjack1

First recorded in 1825–35; lumber 1 + jack 1
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of lumberjack1

C19: from lumber 1+ jack 1(man)
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The bit of lumberjack cosplay came as the Trump administration was beginning layoffs of around 6,000 employees of the Internal Revenue Service.

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Jim Miller once thrashed Poirier’s calves with the ferociousness of a lumberjack chopping down a tree, a pain so extreme, Poirier suffered a takedown and left the cage with a limp.

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Deadfall is a particularly thorny problem, and the club’s latter-day lumberjacks head out with chain saws in tow to remove trees upward of 4 feet in diameter.

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Grgich won asylum in Canada after agreeing to work as a lumberjack in British Columbia.

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Clive had come here to southern Washington State when he was just sixteen, to work as a lumberjack.

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