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lumberjack

[luhm-ber-jak] / ˈlʌm bərˌdʒæk /


NOUN
wood cutter
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He was the genuine artifact, the son of an impoverished Minnesota miner; a lumberjack and a steelworker in his youth.

From Slate ● Sep. 18, 2026

In 1896, a local lumberjack near a small town in northeastern Wisconsin told of a bizarre green monster roaming the nearby woods.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026

After ogling old cars, lean into nostalgia in the Meadow Gold District, dotted with retro shops and “muffler men,” giant fiberglass statues of a lumberjack, a cowboy and more.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 20, 2025

Duffy, a former Republican congressman and Fox Business anchor, is also a former world champion lumberjack speed climber and cast member of “The Real World: Boston.”

From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2025

After he explained the English to her he stood up and jerked his hands in and out the pockets of his lumberjack.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

She was born and raised in this town of 11,000, a member of the Shelton High graduating class of 2006, “Home of the Highclimbers,” named after the lumberjacks when this was logging country.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2022

They still had Bryce Harper and his merry band of fastball-destroying lumberjacks.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2022

Dinner: Impossible Robert Irvine is in the forests near Mackinaw City, Mich., to create a Paul Bunyan-sized dinner for 50 lumberjacks and a dish for timber show guests.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2021

His second book, “The Great Glorious Goddamn of It All,” told from the perspective of a 99-year-old man who is among the last of the lumberjacks in an Idaho timber town, comes out Sept. 7.

From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2021

We had reached the edge of town, by the little gas station/grocery store where the lumberjacks had dropped us.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson




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