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LUMBERJACK

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A short warm outer jacket

Synonyms:

lumber jacket; lumberjack

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("lumberjack" is a kind of...):

jacket (a short coat)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who fells trees

Synonyms:

faller; feller; logger; lumberjack; lumberman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("lumberjack" is a kind of...):

jack; laborer; labourer; manual laborer (someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lumberjack"):

scorer (a logger who marks trees to be felled)

Instance hyponyms:

Bunyan; Paul Bunyan (a legendary giant lumberjack of the north woods of the United States and Canada)

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