What is "lumberjack"

Usage examples of "lumberjack".

I had to watch ahead and try to pick my footingit kept me as busy as a lumberjack in a logrolling contest.

Those same cowhands came around the corner of the building, and Longarm cast a quick glance around for the lumberjacks, figuring there was going to be more trouble.

They were bakers, tinworkers, brewers, tanners, ropemakers, lumberjacks, printers, morticians, woodworkers, stay-makers, and more.

She scowled at him, then realized that several of the men in the common room, many lumberjacks by the look of their wool shirts and broad shoulders, followed her with their eyes, too.

If they realized who the lumberjacks were pointing at, they would tear her apart.

A well-placed kick from The Horse, however, quickly ended the struggle, and one of the lumberjacks fell with a howl beneath the feet of the crowd.

He sensed it vaguely when the two lumberjacks lifted his limp body and carted it out into the street.

Finally, the narrow-gauge spur line that ran up here into the foothills of the Cascade Mountains had deposited him in a place called Timber City, and when he had stepped off the train, he had found himself smack-dab in the middle of a melee between lumberjacks in lace-up boots, khaki pants, and red-checked shirts and cowboys in chaps and Stetsons and cowhide vests.

These lumberjacks really were worried about more trouble coming their way.

All of the lumberjacks had relaxed since finding out he was a lawman and not some cowhand from the Diamond K bent on mischief.

A few minutes later, one of the lumberjacks stepped out of the underbrush and challenged him.

Longarm scanned the slope below him, expecting to see that some of the lumberjacks had already fallen.

Nolby had hidden his receding hairline under a black ball cap bearing the Oldsmobile logo, and his comset peeked out of the front pocket of a heavy cotton lumberjack shirt.

The trans-Plutonian frontier had attracted a lot of roughneck types from North Americaprospectors, comet miners, ice wildcatters, lumberjacks.

I heard men beg for work who had been Egyptologists, botanists, surgeons, gold-miners, professors of Oriental languages, musicians, engineers, physicians, astronomers, anthropologists, chemists, mathematicians, mayors of cities and governors of states, prison warders, cow-punchers, lumberjacks, sailors, oyster pirates, stevedores, riveters, dentists, surgeons, painters, sculptors, plumbers, architects, dope peddlers, abortionists, white slavers, sea divers, steeplejacks, farmers, cloak and suit salesmen, trappers, lighthouse keepers, pimps, aldermen, senators, every bloody thing under the sun, and all of them down and out, begging for work for cigarettes, for carfare, for a chance, Christ Almighty, just another chance!