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logger

logger

30 2.4
A person who cuts down trees for wood
  • noun
  • /ˈlɔɡər/
translation icon : leñador
  • The logger arrived early to start his work cutting down trees in the forest.
  • illegal loggers
  • loggers and ranchers

One of the things I learned is if you build a road, loggers will come.

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Examples

  • You know, when loggers first found this place, they thought they found this gold mine of lumber.

  • You ain't heard of Paul Bunyan, the greatest logger of 'em all?

  • -Your dad was a logger?

  • And Wolverine, being a logger, always has a certain look.

  • When the loggers came... there was fire, and so much smoke.

  • 50 loggers stuck up there in the woods, all winter?

  • I understood that they were loggers, either going where the timber was or coming back.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • Underground miners were better paid than farm workers, but like loggers, they performed dangerous jobs.

    Academic text (1991)
  • There's an old loggers' trail about 15 miles north of here.

  • LuAnn wondered if the road had once been a trail for loggers, for horse-drawn wagons and carriages.

    Fiction book (1996)

Synonyms

lumberjack
vslogger
11 4.4

A person who cuts down trees and prepares wood

focuses mainly on cutting trees to supply timber not processing
woodcutter
vslogger
5 3.0

A person who cuts down trees and chops them into logs

is oriented to producing timber rather than chopping wood for immediate use
feller
vslogger
  • US
4 8.1

A person who cuts down trees with an axe or saw

is focused on cutting trees specifically to produce timber
lumberman
vslogger
  • US
1 5.6

A person who cuts down trees and prepares wood for building

is gender neutral and refers to cutting trees for timber
timberman
vslogger
1 7.1

A person who works with wood from trees, for example cutting or selling it

is narrower, meaning specifically the person who cuts trees for timber
faller
vslogger
  • Jargon
7.8

A person who cuts down trees as part of forest work

carries out cutting to obtain timber rather than general forestry tasks
lumberwoman
vslogger
  • US
9.2

A woman who cuts down trees and prepares wood for building

is the neutral term that covers any gender doing tree cutting for timber
lumberer
vslogger
  • US
3.7

A person who cuts down trees in forests and moves the wood

focuses on cutting alone, not on moving harvested wood

How Skilled

supervisor
346 2.8
logger
30 2.4
skidder
  • Archaic
1 9.5
helper
79 1.0
laborer
  • US
68 1.0

Surface Forms

logger singular
loggers plural

Morphology

logger = log (transparent) = log + er

Standard agentive formation: the verb 'log' + the suffix '-er' yields a person who performs the action, so the meaning is directly predictable.

Etymology

The word logger comes from log + the ending -er, where log means 'a piece of wood' and -er means 'one who does'. So a logger is someone who cuts down trees and works with wood.