lumberman
noun
lum·ber·man
ˈləm-bər-mən 
: a person who is engaged in or oversees the business of cutting, processing, and marketing lumber
Examples of lumberman in a Sentence
a lumberman who supervises the rest of the team during logging season
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Train Dreams, based on a novella by Denis Johnson, follows his key character one Robert Grainier, played brilliantly by Edgerton, a lumberman who felled timber for railroads at the turn of the 20th century.
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Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 6 Feb. 2026
The history of gubernatorial candidates and winners in Wisconsin is replete with mayors, merchants, lawyers, lumbermen, publishers, educators, industrialists, secretaries of state, attorneys general and lieutenant governors.
—Craig Gilbert, jsonline.com, 21 Jan. 2026
Where once these trees stood in the island of Negros, sugarcane now dominates, all benefiting the hacenderos who welcomed the American lumbermen to clear the forests for later agricultural conversion.
—JSTOR Daily, 19 Nov. 2025
The drive honors the late lumberman and conservationist Pierce Stocking and begins just south of Glen Lake before winding upward through thick hardwood forests.
—Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 18 Nov. 2025
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Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 6 Feb. 2026
The history of gubernatorial candidates and winners in Wisconsin is replete with mayors, merchants, lawyers, lumbermen, publishers, educators, industrialists, secretaries of state, attorneys general and lieutenant governors.
—Craig Gilbert, jsonline.com, 21 Jan. 2026
Where once these trees stood in the island of Negros, sugarcane now dominates, all benefiting the hacenderos who welcomed the American lumbermen to clear the forests for later agricultural conversion.
—JSTOR Daily, 19 Nov. 2025
The drive honors the late lumberman and conservationist Pierce Stocking and begins just south of Glen Lake before winding upward through thick hardwood forests.
—Taryn White, Travel + Leisure, 18 Nov. 2025
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“Lumberman.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lumberman. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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lumberman
noun
lum·ber·man
-mən
: a person involved in the business of cutting, trimming, and selling lumber
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