The Collaborative International Dictionary
Timberman \Tim"ber*man\, n.; pl. Timbermen. (Mining)
A man employed in placing supports of timber in a mine.
--Weale.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of timberman English)
Usage examples of "timbermen".
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.