[f. TIMBER sb.1 + MAN sb.1]

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  † 1.  A man who supplies or deals in timber. Obs.

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1429.  Rec. St. Mary at Hill, 70. Payd to more tymberman for tymbre for gretynges hous.

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1625.  Bacon, Ess., Riches (Arb.), 235. A Great Sheepe-Master, A Great Timber Man.

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1656.  [? J. Sergeant], trans. T. White’s Peripat. Inst., 420. Trees are thrown by Timber-men into the Water.

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  b.  A man employed in handling timber.

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1890.  Gordon, Foundry, vi. (heading), Among the timbermen. Ibid., 114. We turn into Canada Dock, and are at once among the timbermen.

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1891.  Labour Commission Gloss., Timber-Men, men who discharge timber cargoes from ships, and stock timber on shore and upon raft on water.

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  † 2.  One who makes things of timber; a carpenter. [So Du. timmerman, G. zimmermann.] Sc. Obs.

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1466.  Sc. Acts Jas. III. (1814), II. 87. Þe master of þe schip sal fynd sufficiand stermane, tymmerman, & schipmen conuenient for þe schip.

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1496.  Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot., I. 282. To Hermyn, tymmyr man, Duchman, for vc and xij rachteris. Ibid. (1502), II. 281. To fee tymirmen to pas to the wod with the said wricht. Ibid. (1534), VI. 234. To Thomas Corry, thre tymmermen,… to pas to calfet the Kingis schip.

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1643.  in Cramond, Ann. Banff (1891), I. 90. Any wright or other timberman burger or inhabitant.

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  3.  A man employed in timbering the shafts or roofs of a mine, the sides of a trench, or any other excavation.

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1849–50.  Weale, Dict. Terms, Timber-man, in mining, the man employed in placing supports of timber in the mine.

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1877.  Foster & Galloway, trans. Callon’s Lect. Mining, I. 231. The timberman who sets up the props has usually no special tool except his axe.

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1887.  Echo, 14 Jan., 1/6. A timberman … had seen … one of the men give a light to the manager, both having their lamps open.

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  4.  A species of timber-beetle.

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1894.  B’ham Weekly Post, 14 April, 4/7. That curious and interesting beetle the Timberman (Astinomus ædilis).

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