lumberjack

Etymology

lumber + jack, of Canadian origin.

noun

  1. A person whose work is to fell trees.
    He's a lumberjack and he's OK / He sleeps all night and works all day / I cut down trees, I eat my lunch / I go to the lavatory 1975 [1969], “The Lumberjack Song”, performed by Monty Python
  2. A lumberjacket.

verb

  1. (transitive) To work as a lumberjack, cutting down trees.
    Many of the lumberjacking memories have faded to black and white, the brightest moments colored mostly by Jim McKay’s yellow blazer. July 28, 2009, John Branch, “Going Way of Old Growth”, in New York Times

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