LOGGING
INTERJECTIONS
1944 ► used as a wake-up call among loggers → DAYLIGHT IN THE SWAMP! → Amer. dial.
1958 ► Watch out! → AROUND THE HORN! → Amer. dial.
NOUNS
1843 ► orig. among loggers: a unit of measurement, esp. of width → AX-HANDLE → Amer. dial.
1905 ► a houseboat used as bunkhouse, kitchen, or storage area, esp. in floating camps → ARK → Amer. dial.
1913 ► a bunk-room in a logging-camp → BAR-ROOM → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1913 ► a pile of logs → DECK → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1913 ► a tree which in falling hits another and rolls on its axis → SIDE WINDER → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1913 ► a tree with a twisted grain → TWISTER → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1913 ► a dangerous hanging limb or stub → WIDOW MAKER → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1913► a lumberman’s pack or kit → TURKEY → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1926 ► a lunch bucket, esp. among loggers → BAIT CAN → Amer. dial.
1930 ► the living room, or smoking room at a lumber camp → LOBBY → Amer. dial.
1938 ► the office of a logging camp → COCK SHOP → Amer. dial.
1938 ► markings on a man’s face which are caused by a man’s stamping on it with his spiked boots, an activity known as ‘putting the caulks to’ (a man) → MACARONI → Can. loggers’ sl.
1938 ► long curls of sawdust → MACARONI → Amer. logging usage
1958 ► payday → ALIBI DAY → Amer. dial.
1958 ► a bundle of small logs strapped together to make easier handling between woods and pulp mill → ASPARAGUS → Amer. dial.
1958 ► the far end of a logging operation → BACK CORNER → Amer. dial.
1958 ► a bunkhouse → CABOOSE → Amer. logging usage
1958 ► a bunkhouse → COUGAR DEN → US logging usage
1958 ► a long tin horn blown by the cook’s helper to call a logging crew to eat → GUT HORN → Amer. sl.
1958 ► a log caught or entangled but not choked with the turn, hauled all or part way to the landing → HITCHHIKER → Amer. logging usage
1959 ► a kink in the logging cable → ASSHOLE → Amer. dial.
1959 ► hay used as a mattress or cushion → MARSH FEATHER(S) → Amer. dial.
1969 ► a corner in the bunkhouse where old-timers reminisced, or a place where sky pilots (preachers) spoke, or entertainers told their stories → AMEN CORNER → Amer. dial.
1969 ► a cruiser’s tent with one sloping side and two ends → BAKE OVEN → Amer. dial.
NOUNS, PERSON
1715 ► a lumberman → BAY-MAN
1858 ► one who drives oxen, esp. in logging and transporting freight → BULLWHACKER → Amer. dial.
1872 ► a foreman or boss, esp. in a logging camp → BULL OF THE WOODS → Amer. dial.
1887 ► one who scales or measures logs → SCALER
1890 ► one who cuts the bark-mark on logs (bark-mark: a symbol chopped into the side of a log to indicate ownership; it serves as a means of identification) → BARK MARKER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1891 ► in logging: one who surveys and estimates standing timber → LANDLOOKER → Amer. dial.
1893 ► a man who drove ox teams in the early days when logging was done with bulls → BULLPUNCHER → Amer. dial.
1893 ► a man who drove ox teams in the early days when logging was done with bulls → BULL TEAMSTER → Amer. dial.
20C ► a lumberjack → SHANTYMAN → chiefly N. Amer.
1900 ► a lumberjack → JACK → US
1902 ► a man whose duty was to care for the horses and stables in a logging camp → BARN-BOSS → US
1902 ► someone who guides logs downstream → RIVER HOG → Amer. sl.
1904 ► one who removes underbrush, fallen trees, and other obstacles in making a gutter road → GUTTER-MAN → US logging usage
1905 ► in logging: one who breaks up log-jams → JAM CRACKER → Amer. dial.
1905 ► one who does odd jobs in a logging camp → SHANTY BOSS → Amer. dial.
1908 ► a logger or other worker in the woods → WOOD HICK → Amer. dial.
1909 ► a worker, formerly often a boy, who signals the operation of log-hauling machinery by controlling the whistle of the ‘donkey engine’ → PUNK → Amer. dial.
1909 ► a worker, formerly often a boy, who signals the operation of log-hauling machinery by controlling the whistle of the ‘donkey engine’ → WHISTLE PUNK → Amer. dial.
1912 ► a small logging or freighting contractor → GYPPO → Amer. logging usage
1913 ► a waiter in a logging camp → BISCUIT SHOOTER → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1913 ► a camp clerk or timekeeper → INKSLINGER → Amer. dial.
1913 ► one who repairs logging roads → ROAD MONKEY → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1913 ► a man who tends chain on the decks of a logging train → SKY HOOKER → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1913 ► a forester or other official, scaler, etc., who measures up the waste in stumps, tops, etc. in a logging operation → STUMP DETECTIVE → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1916 ► a lumberjack or logger; rarely, a lumber-mill worker → TIMBER BEAST → Amer. dial.
1917 ► orig. the man who fed the draft animals in logging camps; later, a camp handyman or helper → BULL COOK → Amer. dial.
1921 ► someone who guides logs downstream → RIVER PIP → Amer. sl.
1925 ► a nickname for a camp foreman → BIG BULL → Amer. loggers’ sl.
1925 ► the person who tops, limbs, and often rigs, the spar tree for use in cable logging → HIGH CLIMBER → Amer. logging usage
1925 ► the person who rigs (and also often tops and limbs) the spar tree for use in cable logging → HIGH RIGGER → Amer. dial.
1925 ► a nickname for a camp foreman → LITTLE BULL → Amer. loggers’ sl.
1925 ► a logger → SAVAGE → Amer. dial.
1926 ► a lumberjack or logger; rarely, a lumber-mill worker → TIMBER WOLF → Amer. dial.
1927 ► an employee who looks after beds and belongings → CAMP DOG → Amer. dial.
1930 ► applied generally to men, but more particularly to a wage-earner → APE → Amer. dial.
1930 ► a foreman or boss, esp. in a logging camp → BULL → Amer. dial.
1930 ► the caretaker of the bunkhouse; a roustabout who does everything from building fires to making beds → LOBBYHOG → Amer. dial.
1930 ► a wage-earner who likes wage-earning → TAME APE → Amer. dial.
1935 ► one who maintains law and order in a logging camp → QUARTERS BOSS → Amer. dial.
1938 ► the chore boy around the camp who cut fuel, filled wood boxes, swept bunkhouses, washed blankets, fed pigs → BAR ROOM MAN → US lumberjacks’ usage
1938 ► an employment agent; esp. in logging → JOB SHARK → Amer. dial.
1942 ► a logger who rolls logs down hillsides that are too steep for wagon teams → BALL HOOTER → US sl.
1942 ► the general superintendent; a foreman → BIG SAVAGE → Amer. dial.
1950 ► a part-time logger, usually not very skilled at woods jobs → APPLEKNOCKER → Amer. dial.
1950 ► an itinerant logger → CAMP INSPECTOR → Amer. dial. jocular
1950 ► one who digs; a tool or machine used esp. in digging holes under logs so that chains can be passed around them → GOPHER MAN → Amer. dial.
1956 ► a man who cuts or peels cedar logs, poles, or posts → CEDAR SAVAGE → Amer. sl.
1956 ► a person whose job it was to clean the horse manure from the ice road → CHICKADEE → Amer. dial.
1956 ► a log-scaler → DAYLIGHT ROBBER → Amer. logging usage
1956 ► one who files saws → DENTIST → US logging usage
1956 ► a pick and shovel man; a worker on a railroad track crew → GANDY HAND → US lumberjacks’ usage
1956 ► a lumberjack who has quit the job → HIKER → Amer. dial.
1958 ► a workman who always manages to be away when there’s dirty or heavy work to be done → ARAB → Amer. dial.
1958 ► one who prefers town to the woods; one who makes big talk in town, small work on the job → ASPHALT LOGGER → Amer. dial.
1958 ► a logger; a sawmill hand → BARK-EATER → Amer. dial.
1958 ► a clumsy axeman → BEAVER → Amer. loggers’ usage
1958 ► a new crew coming in to the camp in the old days, each man carrying his blankets → BLANKET SQUAD → Amer. dial.
1958 ► a logger → BRUSH APE → Amer. dial.
1958 ► an expert in logging jobs → CATTY → Amer. dial.
1958 ► a logger from a camp fronting the ocean → CODFISHER → Amer. dial.
1958 ► a cook’s helper in a logging camp → CRUMB CHASER → Amer. dial.
1958 ► a farmer working as a logger → DASHBOARD → Amer. dial.
1958 ► a logger who runs a small operation → FEATHER MERCHANT → Amer. dial.
1958 ► one who works with the big wheels (timber wheels) → HIGHWHEELER → Amer. dial.
1958 ► a logger wearing a farmer’s bib overalls → SHEEPHERDER → Amer. dial.
1958 ► an inept logger → SHOEMAKER → Amer. dial.
1958 ► anybody carrying water to a crew → WATER BUCK → Amer. loggers’ sl.
1962 ► a logger → HEATHEN → loggers’ sl. (Bk.)
1964 ► a man who did about twice as much work as the others → HIGHBALLER → US sl.
1968 ► a logger’s name for a bridge builder → BRIDGE MONKEY → Amer. logging usage
1968 ► one who maintains law and order in a logging camp → QUARTER BOSS → Amer. dial.
1968 ► a novice → SEARS ROEBUCK GUY → Amer. dial.
1969 ► a man who keeps the sleigh road in good condition → BLUE JAY → US logging usage
1969 ► a man who cared for the horses and stables in a logging camp → FEEDER → Amer. dial.
1970 ► one who drives oxen, esp. in logging and transporting freight → BULL DRIVER → Amer. dial.
1974 ► a construction camp bunkhouse janitor or porter; one who makes up beds → CRUMB BOSS → Amer. hobo and logger use (Bk.)
1975 ► in logging: one who worked in a sawmill → SAWDUST EATER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1978 ► the brakeman responsible for work done in connection with the forward section of the train, and, when in transit, is stationed in the locomotive → HEAD MAN → railroad usage (Bk.)
1986 ► one of the members of a crew who completes the spiking of rails to cross ties after the track has been laid by the steel gang → BACK SPIKER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► rivermen or river rats driving the rear on a log drive → BANK BEAVERS → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► lumberjacks who pile logs on the banking ground → BANKERS → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► a barn boss’s helper → BARN BOY → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► a logging camp foreman → BIG PUSH → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► a logging camp foreman or boss → BIGWIG → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► a ‘river pig’ who treads on a log in the water to rotate it and thus find the end mark or the side mark of ownership → BIRLER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► a man proficient in riding logs on a river drive → BLACKBIRD → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► the sawmill workers who moved boards cut by the gang saw in a sawmill → GANG HELPERS → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► the operator of a gang saw in a sawmill → GANG SAWYER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► a member of the fellowship of woods workers → GAXABO → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► a member of the fellowship of woods workers → GAZEBO → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► a man who keeps the sleigh road in good condition → HAY MAN ON THE HILL → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► in the early days of logging in the lake states the sub-foreman who was the boss of a yarding crew → HEAD CHOPPER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► an expert river driver stationed at a point where a jam was feared → HEAD DRIVER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► a man who selected the logs to be loaded on each railroad car → HEAD LOADER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► the camp foreman, logging superintendent, or boss of a logging crew → HEAD RIG
1986 ► the man who operated the main saw in a sawmill → HEAD SAWYER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► the head man or boss at a sorting gap who called out the log marks to assistants responsible for steering logs into the sorting pens → HEAD SORTER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► the fireman on a logging locomotive → HEAVER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► a river driver who avoids dangerous places and always manages to find work on a high bank or place less dangerous and most always a man who shuns hard work → HIGH BANKER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► a lumberjack who worked only a few days in one place and then moved on to another camp → MICHIGAN JUMPER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► a person expert with a mooley, a cant hook used to handle logs on land → MOOLEY HOGAN → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► an unusually good lumberjack → MOOSE CAT → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► a camp welfare man → SAFETY FIRST → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► what the loggers in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan called the lumberjacks who first came in from the famous valley of the Saginaw River in lower Michigan → SAGS → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► a man in charge of a crew of sawyers and swampers in the woods → SAW BOSS → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► one who files the crosscut saws in the woods or the saws in the sawmills → SAW FILER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► one who files the crosscut saws in the woods or the saws in the sawmills → SAW FITTER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► one who controlled the carriage and other machinery in sawing logs into lumber; the quantity and quality of the lumber depended on his judgement → SAWYER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► a lumberjack who peeled hemlock bark → SCALPER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► one who sold lumber on commission → SCALPER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► a cook’s helper → TAFFLE → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► a cook’s helper → TAFFLER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► one who handled the carriage at a sawmill → TAIL RIGGER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► one who pulled slabs, boards, and cants from the head saw in a mill; he also cut unsalable parts out of lumber → TAIL SAWYER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► a cant hook man who rolls logs to the base of logs already in a deck → TAILER IN → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► one who recorded or tallied the measurements of logs as they were called by the scaler → TALLY BOY → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► one who recorded or tallied the measurements of logs as they were called by the scaler → TALLY MAN → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► one who had charge of the crew which operated the water tank or sprinkler, and who regulated the flow of water in icing logging roads → TANK CONDUCTOR → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► a teamster who drove the teams on a water sprinkler → TANK TEAMSTER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► a man who drove a team in a logging operation → TEAMSTER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► a man who values the amount of standing timber → VALUER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► one who cruised timber to estimate its value → VALUER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► a lumberjack who ‘wailed’ when singing logger’s ballads → WAILER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► a man elected from among the river drivers to be boss of all the crews on the drive → WALKER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► the superintendent of two or more logging camps → WALKER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► one who prepares camp for river drivers → WANIGAN MAN → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► a winch operator → WINCHER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► a man who was engaged in sawing up trees that had been blown down by wind → WIND FALL BUCKER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► a lumberjack who worked until he made his stake → WISCONSIN STICKER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► a caustic name given to some of the early timber barons → WOOD BUTCHER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► the camp carpenter who made logging equipment out of wood → WOOD BUTCHER → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
1986 ► a logger operating on a small scale → ZIPPO → US lumberjacks’ usage (Bk.)
VERBS
1773 ► to haul a log along the ground by means of ropes or chains → TWITCH → chiefly US
1913 ► to roll logs down a steep incline → BALLHOOT → Amer. dial.
1942 ► to hack a tree down → BEAVER (DOWN) → Amer. loggers’ usage
1958 ► to pack up and leave camp → BALLOON IT → Amer. dial., esp. logging usage
1958 ► to attempt to get more steam out of an engine → BEAT THE THROTTLE WITH A STICK → Amer. logging railroad usage
1958 ► in the days of railroad logging, to walk the track away from camp, either because fired, or quitting the job → HIT THE STEEL → logging sl.
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