timbermann.
/ˈtɪmbəmən/ 1. † a. A man who supplies or deals in timber. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in timber
wooderc1050
woodmonger1261
woodman1426
timberman1429
wood-maker1616
billet-dealera1625
mahogany trade1850
1429 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 70 Payd to more tymberman for tymbre for gretynges hous.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 208 A Great Sheepe-Master, A Great Timber Man.
1656 tr. T. White Peripateticall Inst. 420 Trees are thrown by Timber-men into the Water.
b. A man employed in handling timber.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > woodworker > [noun] > other woodworkers
rough-hewer1574
hoop-shaver1688
timber-taster1803
spaller1843
pump log borer1857
stamp-cutter1858
creosoter1889
timberman1890
worm-eater1890
slabby1907
1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry vi. (heading) Among the timbermen.
1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry vi. 114 We turn into Canada Dock, and are at once among the timbermen.
1891 Labour Commission Gloss. Timbermen, men who discharge timber cargoes from ships, and stock timber on shore and upon raft on water.
c. Canadian. An owner or manager of a company engaged in lumbering.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumberman > manager or owner
timberman1889
push1908
woods boss1928
1889 W. H. Withrow Our own Country: Canada 527 The trees, where the timbermen have not culled out the finest, are most picturesque.
1963 F. W. Lindsay B.C. Outlaws 7 Among them is..a prominent timberman who recently became interested in timber limits at Quatsino.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > woodworker > [noun] > carpenter
carpenterc1325
tree-workera1382
timberman1466
carpentaries1486
chip1784
caseworker1860
chippy1881
1466 Sc. Acts Jas. III (1814) II. 87 Þe master of þe schip sal fynd sufficiand stermane, tymmerman, & schipmen conuenient for þe schip.
1496 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 282 To Hermyn, tymmyr man, Duchman, for vc and xij rachteris.
1502 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 281 To fee tymirmen to pas to the wod with the said wricht.
1534 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1905) VI. 234 To Thomas Corry, thre tymmermen,..to pas to calfet the Kingis schip.
1643 in W. Cramond Ann. Banff (1891) I. 90 Any wright or other timberman burger or inhabitant.
3. A man employed in timbering the shafts or roofs of a mine, the sides of a trench, or any other excavation.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > earth-movers, etc. > [noun] > one performing other specific processes
underminer1519
leveller1712
timberman1850
stoper1874
1850 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. iv. 464/2 Timber-man, in mining, the man employed in placing supports of timber in the mine.
1877 C. Le Neve Foster & W. Galloway tr. J. Callon Lect. Mining I. 231 The timberman who sets up the props has usually no special tool except his axe.
1881 Echo 14 Jan. 1/6 A timberman..had seen..one of the men give a light to the manager, both having their lamps open.
4. A species of timber-beetle.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Curculionoidea or Rhyncophora > family Scolytidae > member of (bark-beetle)
timber-capricorn1803
timber-beetle1841
bark-borer1859
bark-beetle1862
pin borer1890
scolytid1890
timberman1894
engraver beetle1896
ambrosia beetle1897
pinhole borer1916
shot-hole borer1916
1894 B'ham Weekly Post 14 Apr. 4/7 That curious and interesting beetle the Timberman (Astinomus ædilis).
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