lumberman

A salesman pulls out all the stops in a last-ditch effort to sell his latest tractor to an old-fashioned lumberman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2020

Her father, Joshua Coleman, had farmed and worked as a lumberman, and, in the 1930s, was employed at the local upmarket resort, the Greenbrier.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 24, 2020

They told him they needed somebody to fire up the crowd and that his muscular build fit the image of the lumberman they were looking for.

From Seattle Times ● May 24, 2017

Born in Harrison, Ark., on May 4, 1922, he was the son of Arthur Hammerschmidt, a lumberman, and the former Junie Taylor, a homemaker.

From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2015

There was much talk between the lumberman, Mr. Howbridge and M’Graw regarding the timber.

From The Corner House Girls Snowbound by Grace Brooks Hill

In this once working-class city of lumbermen and Boeing machinists, the median home price is now $535,000, a 19 percent increase since March 2014, and bidding wars are common.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2015

Local trade and craft guilds, from lumbermen to haberdashers, marked territory and sharpened rivalries.

From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2013

According to Harrison Ngau, a Sarawak native being held under house arrest for taking part in antilogging protests, some forests have been excised from protected lands to open them up to the lumbermen.

From Time Magazine Archive

This means that Pacific Northwest lumbermen must pay $36 per 1,000 board feet to ship green lumber to East Coast ports in U.S. vessels, while Canadian lumbermen pay as little as $26 on foreign-flag freighters.

From Time Magazine Archive

Callow had been a logger in his younger years, and like most lumbermen he believed that cedar was only good for making shakes and shingles.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown