Word Meanings - LUMBERMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who is engaged in lumbering as a business or employment.

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• LUMBERMAN
  One who is engaged in lumbering as a business or employment.
• LUMBERING
  The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber.
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• LUMBER STATE
  Maine; -- a nickname.
• ENGAGING
  Tending to draw the attention or affections; attractive; as, engaging manners or address. -- En*ga"ging*ly, adv. -- En*ga"ging*ness, n. Engaging and disengaging gear or machinery, that in which, or by means of which, one part is alternately brought
• ENGAGEDNESS
  The state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal.
• BUSINESSLIKE
  In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
• ENGAGE
  To come into gear with; as, the teeth of one cogwheel engage those of another, or one part of a clutch engages the other part. (more info) Etym: 1. To put under pledge; to pledge; to place under obligations to do or forbear doing something, as
• ENGAGER
  One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety. Several sufficient citizens were engagers. Wood.
• EMPLOYMENT
  1. The act of employing or using; also, the state of being employed. 2. That which engages or occupies; that which consumes time or attention; office or post of business; service; as, agricultural employments; mechanical employments;
• LUMBERER
  One employed in lumbering, cutting, and getting logs from the forest for lumber; a lumberman. Lumberers have a notion that he is harmful to timber. Lowell.
• ENGAGEDLY
  With attachment; with interest; earnestly.
• ENGAGED
  1. Occupied; employed; busy. 2. Pledged; promised; especially, having the affections pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed. 3. Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest. 4. Involved; esp., involved in a hostile encounter; as,
• LUMBER
  lenders and pawnbrokers of the Middle Ages. A lumber room was, according to Trench, originally a Lombard room, or room where the 1. A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn; hence, a pledge, or pawn. They put all the little
• ENGAGEMENT
  An action; a fight; a battle. In hot engagement with the Moors. Dryden. (more info) 1. The act of engaging, pledging, enlisting, occupying, or entering into contest. 2. The state of being engaged, pledged or occupied; specif., a pledge to take
• UNEMPLOYMENT
  Quality or state of being not employed; -- used esp. in economics, of the condition of various social classes when temporarily thrown out of employment, as those engaged for short periods, those whose trade is decaying, and those least competent.
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• SLUMBERY
  Sleepy. Chaucer.
• CLUMBER
  A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently.
• GREENGAGE
  A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage.
• SLUMBERER
  One who slumbers; a sleeper.
• DISENGAGING
  Loosing; setting free; detaching. Disengaging machinery. See under Engaging.
• DISEMPLOYMENT
  The state of being disemployed, or deprived of employment. This glut of leisure and disemployment. Jer. Taylor.
• PLUMBER
  One who works in lead; esp., one who furnishes, fits, and repairs lead, iron, or glass pipes, and other apparatus for the conveyance of water, gas, or drainage in buildings.
• PREENGAGEMENT
  Prior engagement, obligation, or attachment, as by contract, promise, or affection. My preëngagements to other themes were not unknown to those for whom I was to write. Boyle.
• MISEMPLOYMENT
  Wrong or mistaken employment. Johnson.
• SLUMBERINGLY
  In a slumbering manner.