timberman
IPA: tˈɪmbɝmʌn
noun
- A lumberman
- A timber dealer
- A person who installs timbers in a mine
- A longhorn beetle, of genus Acanthocinus, of European pine forests.
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Examples of "timberman" in Sentences
- She came in sight of the young timberman and his outfit.
- I didn't mean to make it awkward for a good timberman like you!!!
- "If he holds his gait, he'll be a big timberman before you know it."
- He quickly rose through the mining ranks to shift boss and timberman.
- Two timberman died instantly while having lunch due to lack of oxygen.
- Hamilton Timberman, the inhabitant of the house, claims there was no dead body.
- He was also a respected farmer and knowledgeable timberman of northern Michigan.
- "He made his money that way, and it is not long since he was a timberman on this same lode."
- The man on the seat, talking to another on the ground, was Mr. Gedney Raffer, the timberman who was contending at law with Uncle Henry.
- The farmer who owns a large forest tract should have some reliable and experienced timberman carefully inspect his timber and estimate the amount and value.
- The timberman driving through the hollow had not seen the bobcat and her three blind babies; but he had roused the mother cat and she was now all ready to spring at intruders.
- "A seaman's curse light on the folly that exposes planks and lives to such navigation; and all to burn some old timberman, or catch a Norway trader asleep! give way, men, give way!"
- It was so in this case; and being known all over the district as a skilful miner, his specialty being timber-work, he very soon got a good job on the Pelican as boss timberman on a section of that important mine.
- Agni araflammed and Mithra monished and Shiva slew as maya-mutras the obluvial waters of our noarchic memory withdrew, windingly goharksome, to some hastyswasty timberman torch-priest, flamenfan, the ward of the wind that lightened the fire that lay in the wood that Jove bolt, at his rude word.
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