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timberman|ˈtɪmbəmən|
[f. timber n.1 + man n.1]
1.
†a. A man who supplies or deals in timber. Obs.
1429Rec. St. Mary at Hill 70 Payd to more tymberman for tymbre for gretynges hous. 1625Bacon Ess., Riches (Arb.) 235 A Great Sheepe-Master, A Great Timber Man. 1656[? J. Sergeant] tr. T. White's Peripat. Inst. 420 Trees are thrown by Timber-men into the Water.
b. A man employed in handling timber.
1890Gordon Foundry vi. (heading), Among the timbermen. Ibid. 114 We turn into Canada Dock, and are at once among the timbermen. 1891Labour Commission Gloss., Timbermen, men who discharge timber cargoes from ships, and stock timber on shore and upon raft on water.
c. Canad. An owner or manager of a company engaged in lumbering.
1889W. H. Withrow Our Own Country—Canada 527 The trees, where the timbermen have not culled out the finest, are most picturesque. 1963F. W. Lindsay B.C. Outlaws 7 Among them is..a prominent timberman who recently became interested in timber limits at Quatsino.
†2. One who makes things of timber; a carpenter. [So Du. timmerman, G. zimmermann.] Sc. Obs.
1466Sc. Acts Jas. III (1814) II. 87 Þe master of þe schip sal fynd sufficiand stermane, tymmerman, & schipmen conuenient for þe schip. 1496Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 282 To Hermyn, tymmyr man, Duchman, for vc and xij rachteris. 1502Ibid. II. 281 To fee tymirmen to pas to the wod with the said wricht. 1534Ibid. VI. 234 To Thomas Corry, thre tymmermen,..to pas to calfet the Kingis schip. 1643in Cramond Ann. Banff (1891) I. 90 Any wright or other timberman burger or inhabitant.
3. A man employed in timbering the shafts or roofs of a mine, the sides of a trench, or any other excavation.
1849–50Weale Dict. Terms, Timber-man, in mining, the man employed in placing supports of timber in the mine. 1877Foster & Galloway tr. Callon's Lect. Mining I. 231 The timberman who sets up the props has usually no special tool except his axe. 1881Echo 14 Jan. 1/6 A timberman..had seen..one of the men give a light to the manager, both having their lamps open.
4. A species of timber-beetle.
1894B'ham Weekly Post 14 Apr. 4/7 That curious and interesting beetle the Timberman (Astinomus ædilis). |