tiersman
/ˈtɪəzmən
/noun Australian
(Chiefly in South Australia) a lumberjack working on a forested mountain range: stringybark for buildings in Adelaide was cut by the tiersmen...
- The first hanging in the Colony was that of Magee, a tiersman.
- These places, owing to want of money amongst the tiersmen, are evidently falling off.
- They lived in the Adelaide Hills, probably with the Tiersmen in the stringybark forests, felling trees, erecting rough houses and post-and-rail fences.
Origin
Mid 19th century: from tier in the Australian sense 'a forested mountain range' + -man.