[f. LUMBER v.2 + -ING1.]

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  1.  The action of filling with lumber.

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1775.  in Ash, Suppl.

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  2.  The trade or business of a lumberer; dealing or working in timber.

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1792.  J. Belknap, Hist. New-Hampsh., III. 213. Towns adjoining the river, in which lumbering was formerly the chief employment.

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1898.  G. F. R. Henderson, Stonewall Jackson, I. i. 10. Young men had to serve a practical apprenticeship to lumbering and agriculture.

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  b.  attrib., as lumbering-camp, season.

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1857.  Thoreau, Maine W. (1894), 143. Here were the ruins of an old lumbering camp.

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1873.  Wisconsin Rep., XXXI. 424. The coming lumbering season.

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