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. II. (1821), 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.
