lumberjack

English

Etymology

From lumber and jack.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈlʌm.bə.dʒæk/, X-SAMPA: /"lVm.b@.dZ{k/

Noun

Wikipedia lumberjack (plural lumberjacks)

1. a person whose work is to fell trees.
2. a lumberjacket.

Translations

person who fells trees

• Arabic: حطاب (ar) (HaTTaab) m
• Catalan: llenyataire (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 伐木工 (cmn) (fámùgōng)

• Czech: dřevorubec (cs) m
• Danish: skovhugger (da) c
• Dutch: houthakker (nl) m and f
• Esperanto: arbohakisto (eo)
• Finnish: metsuri (fi)
• French: bûcheron (fr) m
• German: Holzfäller (de) m
• Hungarian: favágó (hu)
• Icelandic: skógarhöggsmaður (is) m

• Irish: lománaí (ga) m
• Italian: boscaiolo (it)
• Japanese: 木こり (ja) (きこり, kikori)
• Macedonian: дрвосечач (mk) (drvósečač) m
• Norwegian: tømmerhugger (no) m
• Polish: drwal (pl) m
• Portuguese: lenhador (pt), madeireiro (pt) m
• Romanian: lemnar (ro) m
• Russian: лесоруб (ru) (lesorúb) m, дровосек (ru) (drovosék) m, вальщик леса (ru) (vál'ščik lésa) m
• Serbo-Croatian: drvoseča (sh) m, drvòsječa (sh) m
• Slovak: drevorubač m
• Spanish: leñador (es) m, leñadora (es) f
• Swedish: skogshuggare (sv) c
• Turkish: oduncu (tr)

Synonyms

• (a person who fells trees): faller, feller, logger, lumberman

Verb

lumberjack (third-person singular simple present lumberjacks, present participle lumberjacking, simple past and past participle lumberjacked)

1. (transitive) To work as a lumberjack, cutting down trees.
   • 2009 July 28, John Branch, “Going Way of Old Growth”, New York Times:

     Many of the lumberjacking memories have faded to black and white, the brightest moments colored mostly by Jim McKay’s yellow blazer.

See also

• lumbermill