N. Amer. [f. LUMBER sb.1 + MAN.] One whose work is among lumber or rough timber, esp. one who fells and dresses timber in the forest.
a. 1817. T. Dwight, Trav. New-Eng., etc. (1821), II. 166. The lumbermen were without employment.
1870. Emerson, Soc. & Solit., Wks. (Bohn), III. 1. He envied every drover and lumberman in the tavern.
1893. Scribner’s Mag., June, 711/1. The veteran lumberman and politician, Hon. Philetus Sawyer, is a conspicuous example.
