(in Tasmania) a person employed in felling Huon pines and transporting the timber.
these shores had never echoed to the thud of a piner's axe
Example sentencesExamples
- Black swans had been greatly reduced in numbers by whalers and piners.
- For decades piners cut down trees along the west coast rivers.
- On the margins of this society were the piners.
- As pines became more difficult to obtain, the piners moved south to Port Davey.
- It was a convenient base for piners and others wanting to plunder the area's considerable resources.