What is "timberman"

Usage examples of "timberman".

The effect of the language program on the enlisted men was evidently not spectacular for Stilwell after a time found it necessary to persuade one of the younger officers, Lieutenant Timberman, who had achieved some fluency, to teach the noncoms enough Chinese to ask their way.

Davies and General Timberman of the General Staff, another veteran of the 15th Infantry now attached to CBI Headquarters in Chungking, persuaded Marshall of the need for the mission, and a second report by Davies in January 1944 reached Hopkins in the White House.

The timberman was evidently used to stepping from log to log, though, and he quickly made his way to the back of the crude raft.

His father was a timberman, who licensed steamers to carry Siberian wood from the northern shore of the Caspian Sea to its southern coast.

He could easily imagine Seth and some of his cronies trying to strike back at the lumberjacks for imagined injustices, which would in turn lead the timbermen to try to get even by poisoning wells and such.

Some of the timbermen known as river pigs were controlling it with long poles and ropes that had been attached to the iron spikes called dogs that had been driven into the outer logs of the boom.

Even through that storm of dust and hurtling rock the timbermen could get their blocking up there, but they could not place it fast enough -- there were too many other men in the way.

Even through that storm of dust and hurtling rock the timbermen could get their blocking up there, but they could not place it fast enough—there were too many other men in the way.

Those timbermen might know their way around a knife and a fork, but most of them weren't any good with steaks still on the hoof.