lumberjack

[luhm-ber-jak]

noun

1. a person who works at lumbering; lumber; lumbering; logger.

2. lumber jacket.

3. Canadian.,  the gray jay.

lumberjack

/ ˈlʌmbəˌdʒæk /

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of lumberjack¹

First recorded in 1825–35; lumber ¹ + jack ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of lumberjack¹

C19: from _lumber ¹ + _jack ¹ (man)

Example Sentences

Online amateur sleuths, who had taken it upon themselves to investigate, thought that in the former lumberjack they had found their man.

From BBC

The closing moments revealed that he had survived, winding up in a remote community far from Miami and starting a new life as a lumberjack.

From Los Angeles Times

The bit of lumberjack cosplay came as the Trump administration was beginning layoffs of around 6,000 employees of the Internal Revenue Service.

From Salon

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.

From Seattle Times

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.

From Seattle Times