Word Meanings - LUMBERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber.

Related words: (words related to LUMBERING)

• LUMBERMAN
  One who is engaged in lumbering as a business or employment.
• LUMBERING
  The business of cutting or getting timber or logs from the forest for lumber.
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• GETTABLE
  That may be obtained.
• FORESTICK
  Front stick of a hearth fire.
• FOREST
  A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of
• CUTTHROAT
  One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin.
• TIMBERMAN
  A man employed in placing supports of timber in a mine. Weale.
• TIMBER
  A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, (more info) Sw. timber, LG. timmer, MHG. zimber, G. zimmer, F. timbre, LL.
• FORESTAY
  A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship.
• FORESTAGE
  A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters. A service paid by foresters to the king.
• CUTTY
  Short; as, a cutty knife; a cutty sark.
• LUMBER STATE
  Maine; -- a nickname.
• CUTTING
  1. The act or process of making an incision, or of severing, felling, shaping, etc. 2. Something cut, cut off, or cut out, as a twig or
• CUTTYSTOOL
  1. A low stool 2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
• FORESTER
  A lepidopterous insect belonging to Alypia and allied genera; as, the eight-spotted forester , which in the larval state is injurious to the grapevine. (more info) 1. One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed
• FORESTALL
  To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market. To forestall the market, to buy or contract for merchandise or provision on its way to market, with the intention
• BUSINESSLIKE
  In the manner of one transacting business wisely and by right methods.
• GETTERUP
  One who contrives, makes, or arranges for, anything, as a book, a machine, etc. A diligent getter-up of miscellaneous works. W. Irving.
• TIMBERHEAD
  The top end of a timber, rising above the gunwale, and serving for belaying ropes, etc.; -- called also kevel head.
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• SLUMBERY
  Sleepy. Chaucer.
• FORGETTINGLY
  By forgetting.
• CONTRAFAGETTO
  The double bassoon, an octave deeper than the bassoon.
• SWARD-CUTTER
  A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower.
• VERGETTE
  Divided by pallets, or pales; paly. W. Berry.
• CLUMBER
  A kind of field spaniel, with short legs and stout body, which, unlike other spaniels, hunts silently.
• COAFFOREST
  To convert into, or add to, a forest. Howell.
• SCUTTLE
  both fr. L. scutella, dim. of scutra, scuta, a dish or platter; cf. 1. A broad, shallow basket. 2. A wide-mouthed vessel for holding coal: a coal hod.
• AFFOREST
  To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country.