Verb (used with object) : We lumbered more than a million acres last year. From Dictionary.com.
He is a lumberer, and has a saw-mill of a very primitive kind. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference
While he was a lumberer, Lincoln was in the employ of one Kirkpatrick, who "ran" a sawmill. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
In this case the master-lumberer bears the loss, and is obliged to refund the expenses incurred as best he can. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Trees at Elmridge] Reference
Wingfield said, "You will correct me if I am wrong, Caleb, but is't not so your only forays into the forest have been as a lumberer?". From Wordnik.com. [A different flesh]
One famous fellow of this governing class is known by his deeds and words to every lumberer and stevedore and timber-tower about Montreal and Quebec. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861] Reference
A log-house is the appropriate dwelling of the lumberer in the woods; but transplant it to a suburban lawn and it becomes an absurdity, and a double absurdity. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference
Such a rebuff would not have embarrassed Bertie, nor awakened in him a slumbering conscience, as it did in this young lumberer, who was ridiculous enough to be in earnest in his infidelity. From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
It was too bad of Alec, for he had been engaged a year, and had already cleared (he was a lumberer) space enough in the backwoods to start a farm, and he was now on a short visit to his betrothed to report progress and pursue his suit. From Wordnik.com. [Bluebell A Novel] Reference
My next neighbour was a stalwart, bronzed Kentucky farmer, in a palm-leaf hat, who, strange to say, never made any demonstrations with his bowie-knife, and, having been a lumberer in these forests, pointed out all the objects of interest. From Wordnik.com. [The Englishwoman in America] Reference
Then I saw a lumberer taking his dinner on a rock in the river, who “touched his hat” and brought me a draught of ice-cold water, which I could hardly drink owing to the fractiousness of the horse, and gathered me some mountain pinks, which I admired. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference
Settler, never become a lumberer, if you can avoid it. From Wordnik.com. [Canada and the Canadians Volume I] Reference
Canadian lumberer can manage to do his daily task on tea without milk. From Wordnik.com. [North America — Volume 1] Reference
While he was a lumberer, Lincoln was in the employ of one Kirkpatrick, who “ran” a sawmill. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book]
French Canadian song, which we will give in the English, as we heard it sung by an old lumberer. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
This night we had a dish of arbor-vitae, or cedar-tea, which the lumberer sometimes uses when other herbs fail. From Wordnik.com. [The Maine Woods] Reference
The same is the case with the white and red pines, and some other trees, greatly to the convenience of the lumberer. From Wordnik.com. [The Maine Woods] Reference
Rough in manners, and often only half-civilized, the lumberer, as an individual, resembles little the woodsman of other lands. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I)] Reference
The fearful conflagration to which our poor lumberer nearly fell a victim, has been thus ably described in M'Gregor's "British America.". From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I)] Reference
A young lady told me an adventure that befell her and her sister, which is rather a droll illustration of the manners of a French Canadian lumberer. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Clearings versus the Bush] Reference
One famous fellow of this governing class is known by his deeds and words to every lumberer and stevedore and timber - tower about Montreal and Quebec. From Wordnik.com. [Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present] Reference
In short the inhabitants visit the beach to see what they have caught as regularly as a fisherman his weir or a lumberer his boom; the Cape is their boom. From Wordnik.com. [Cape Cod] Reference
Louis, raising his voice, began to sing the words of an old French Canadian song, which we will give in the English as we heard it sung by an old lumberer. From Wordnik.com. [Canadian Crusoes] Reference
It was from this mighty destruction that the forecast and admirable presence of mind displayed by the lumberer, whose pathetic story I am about to relate, saved him. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I)] Reference
Hector told the old lumberer how long they had been separated from their families, and by what sad accident they had been deprived of the society of their beloved sister. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Backwoods] Reference
I will presently give in his own forcible and feeling language the history of a lumberer who escaped from destruction after being for some time in imminent peril of his life. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I)] Reference
Hector then told the old lumberer how long they had been separated from their families, and by what sad accident they had been deprived of the society of their beloved sister. From Wordnik.com. [Canadian Crusoes] Reference
Then I saw a lumberer taking his dinner on a rock in the river, who "touched his hat" and brought me a draught of ice-cold water, which I could hardly drink owing to the fractiousness of the horse, and gathered me some mountain pinks, which I admired. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference
"As I closed the front door and stepped out upon the sidewalk, a tall man lounged across to me from the doorway of a saloon across the road -- a lumberer, by his dress. From Wordnik.com. [Wandering Heath] Reference
A heavy lumberer Peter was. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Bytown and Its Old Inhabitants] Reference
He is a lumberer, and has a saw-mill of. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference
To the lumberer asleep 'neath thy glooming. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell] Reference
Created by lumberer. From Wordnik.com. [WalkJogRun New Running Routes] Reference
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