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lumbering

lumbering

2 4.9
The business of cutting and selling wood
  • noun
  • /ˈlʌmbərɪŋ/
  • US
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  • The lumbering business is crucial for providing materials to construction companies across the country.

And would you have, would you find things to do with lumbering, particularly as a big feature of your research?

Examples

  • At the same time that this lumbering effort was made, attempts to bring agriculturally based industry to Pembroke were also maturing.

    Academic text (1999)

  • In Wyoming Sawmills Incorporated v. U.S. Forest Service, a timber company challenged a Forest Service historic preservation plan that limited lumbering near the Medicine Wheel National Historic Landmark in Wyoming's Bighorn National Forest.

    Academic text (2006)

  • As a man whose name is often linked with major lumbering interests, would you care to comment on this statement?

    The Big Fix (1978)

  • There are also U.S. and Honduran lumbering companies that exploit the forest with the support of the government.

    Fiction book (1994)

  • Canada's transportation companies reached new records for quantities of grain shipped, while mining, lumbering, and construction were also robust.

    Academic text (2005)

  • Had the tropical forest around the Petexbatn not been cleared for milpas and lumbering, we would have been able to identify few terraces.

    Academic text (2002)

  • Seventy years old or not, Pepe Ducharmes was a rugged man from a lifetime of farming, lumbering, hunting, and fishing.

    Fiction book (2002)

  • The forestry industry heavily relies on lumbering for timber production and economic growth.

  • Several local families have made a living through lumbering for generations, cutting trees to sell as timber.

Synonyms

logging
vslumbering
67 3.1

Cutting down trees to get wood for building or sale

extends beyond cutting to include preparation and commercial sale
timbering
vslumbering
  • Specialized
1 4.8

Cutting and preparing trees to make wood for building

also includes the commercial sale side beyond cutting and preparing

How Extensive

clear-cutting
  • Specialized
2 5.2
lumbering
  • US
2 4.9
logging
67 3.1

Surface Forms

lumbering singular
lumberings plural

Morphology

lumbering = lumber (transparent) = lumber + ing

The noun is transparently formed from the verb 'lumber' with the suffix '-ing', referring to the activity or business of lumbering.

Etymology

Lumbering (the trade in wood) comes from the word lumber, which once meant 'large pieces of wood' or 'timber' and is still seen in words like lumberjack. So, lumbering is the work of cutting, preparing, and selling that wood.