haggern.
/ˈhaɡə/, U.S. /ˈhæɡər/ Scottish and English regional (northern) in later use. Now historical.
1. Chiefly Scottish. A person who cuts or coppices trees; a woodcutter. Now historical and rare.Recorded earliest in wood-hagger n. at wood n.1 Compounds 2a. Sc. National Dict. (at Hag) records this sense as still in use in Ayrshire in 1928.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumberman
wood-hewerc1000
wooderc1050
hagger1294
wood-hagger1294
feller1422
woodman1426
faller1614
wood-maker1616
forest-feller1618
axeman1671
holt-felstera1678
stocker1686
bayman1715
logger1734
wood-cutter1758
lumberer1809
lumbermana1817
shantyman1824
chopper1827
splitter1841
bushman1846
mahogany cutter1850
piner1871
bush-faller1882
lumberjack1888
bushwhacker1898
home guard1903
Jack1910
gyppo1912
timber-getter1912
timberjack1916
timber beast1919
1294–5 Accts. Exchequer King's Remembrancer (P.R.O.: E101/5/8) m. 2 Et xvj. d. in stipendiis Walteri Le Wodhagger pro meremio prosternendo in bosco de Scagholm', per iiijor dies.
1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iii. vii. 69 Let no man thinke that the President and these Gentlemen spent their times as common Wood-haggers at felling of trees, or such other like labours.
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Hagger, one who is employed in felling trees [Lanarkshire].
2004 R. Muir Landscape Encycl. 107/1 Hag-yard, a coppiced wood cut by a hagger or ‘hag-man’.
2. English regional (Cumberland). Mining. A miner who cuts coal from the seam; = hewer n. c. Now historical.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > miner > [noun] > coal-miner > who cuts coal
hagger1696
hewer1708
holer1829
1696 W. Gilpin Let. 26 Apr. in D. R. Hainsworth Corr. J. Lowther (1983) 277 The haggers, etc., being dispersed, will not (perhaps) be so easily got together again.
1710 J. Spedding Let. 20 Jan. in O. Wood West Cumberland Coal (1988) ii. 44 We..cannot yet gett a compleat Sett made up at ye latter for want of Haggers.
1821 Lancaster Gazetter 21 Apr. An explosion of fire-damp took place in the William Pit, near Whitehaven,..caused the death of five men, employed as haggers.
1894 West Cumberland Times in E. W. Prevost Dickinson's Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (1899) 151/1 It's leyke forty thousand cwoal haggers at wark i' me inseyde.
1981 J. V. Beckett Coal & Tobacco iii. 71 The stream of sparks emitted produced a glimmering light which was sufficient for haggers to work by, and which..did not ignite the fire-damp.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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