lumberjack

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person whose work is to fell trees.

   "That's where my lumberjack training comes in handy," grinned Seaton.

Simplified etymology

Lumberjack arose in the mid-19th century using jack in its 18th-century sense of a labourer, a development of the personal name Jack as a term for an ordinary man.

From lumber + jack, of Canadian origin.

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