N. Amer. [f. LOG v. + -ER1.] One who fells timber or cuts it into logs; a lumberman.
1734. New Hampsh. Prov. Papers (1870), IV. 840. Many Towns raising a generall Contribution among the Logers for him.
1827. J. F. Cooper, Prairie, II. i. 7. It will not be long before an accursed band of choppers and loggers will be following.
1890. W. J. Gordon, Foundry, 114. Life among the loggers … seems the very ideal of healthy independence.
1900. Chamb. Jrnl., Ser. VI. III. 681/2. Twenty-two acres of the best spruce-land will contain one hundred and fifty-four thousand feet of timber, which an average gang of loggers would cut down in about eight days.
