lumberjackn.
/ˈlʌmbədʒak/, U.S. /ˈləmbərˌdʒæk/ΚΠ
1864 Fremont (Ohio) Jrnl. 26 Feb. The men [look] like a cross between steelyards and ‘lumber jacks’, beetles and jointed X's.
1875 U.S. Patent 171,107 1/1 My invention relates to that class of lifting-jacks used in the lumber trade to raise and handle heavy logs... Figure 1..is a side elevation of a lumber-jack.
1914 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 7 Apr. 200/1 In a lumber jack, a supporting arm having a bearing, a yoke having arms, and a stud journaled in the bearing.
2. Especially in North America: a person (originally a man) who fells trees, cuts them into logs, or transports them to a sawmill; a person engaged in working with or handling lumber; a logger.
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1888 Sunday Inter Ocean (Chicago) 3 June ii. 9/6 Some people call the horny-handed denizens of the woods ‘river hogs’, or ‘lumber jacks’.
1902 S. E. White Blazed Trail v. 41 Typical native-born American lumber-jacks powerful in frame.
1972 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 2 Feb. 16/5 She later became a lumberjack and spent three months in the woods.
2015 K. Bass Uncertain Soldier iv. 32 ‘Timber!’ one of the lumberjacks shouted.
Compounds
As modifier, esp. in lumberjack shirt. Designating a shirt of (usually heavy) brushed cotton or flannel, typically with a check pattern, of a type originally worn by lumberjacks. Also applied to jackets, coats, etc., made of a similar checked fabric. Cf. mackinaw n. 2c, 4c.
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1916 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 2 July 23/5 They are drilling in straw hats, in Madras shirt sleeves, in overalls, in jumpers, in lumberjack shirts.
1951 N. Monsarrat Cruel Sea (1953) v. iv. 398 The townsfolk still trudged round in snow-boots and jerkins, fur caps and lumberjack shirts.
1991 N.Y. Amsterdam News 23 Nov. 26/4 She was very large, wore lumberjack work shirts and overalls, had hands the size of most men and was known to fight for her pay at the end of the week.
1995 C. Bateman Divorcing Jack xxiii. 199 One wore a lumberjack jacket, zipped at the very bottom but open the rest of the way up.
2019 G. P. Booth Demons in Every Man xxvii. 301 Just then, Tara spotted a tall guy in a lumberjack shirt.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).
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