lumberjack
Other forms: lumberjacks
A lumberjack is someone who cuts down trees professionally. Picture someone holding a chain saw and wearing a plaid flannel shirt and steel-toe boots, and you can picture a lumberjack.
These days, lumberjack sounds pretty old-fashioned — the same job is done today, but people who do it are typically called "loggers," and they use power tools like chain saws. Lumberjacks, particularly in the 19th and early 20th century, used hand saws and axes and were famous for being ruggedly independent and physically daring. Lumberjack was coined by Canadians.
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a person who fells treesexamples:Paul Bunyana legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canadatypes:scorera logger who marks trees to be felledtype of:jack, laborer, labourer, manual laborersomeone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor
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a short warm outer jacketsynonyms: lumber jackettype of:jacketa short coat
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