timber cruiser

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"You hear trees falling constantly, but you can't see them through the smoke," says Bill Thompson, 51, a timber cruiser from Salem, Ore. "It gets real spooky out here."

From Time Magazine Archive

Ike M’Graw, the timber cruiser, was an excellent weather prophet; and this was proved to be a fact before all of those at Red Deer Lodge had gone to bed on this first night.

From The Corner House Girls Snowbound by Hill, Grace Brooks

So those who live upon the ocean come to possess that which they will not barter for ease, and so the timber cruiser shortens his visit to town.

From Minstrel Weather by Storm, Marian

McGarven, the timber cruiser, who had no idea that there was any man but himself on the lake, watched the bull with growing wonder and distrust, thinking him possessed of some evil demon.

From Wood Folk at School by Long, William Joseph

But the old creature, who lived alone, dismissed the timber cruiser with a wave of her bony hand.

From Blue Ridge Country by Caldwell, Erskine