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lumberjacking

lumberjacking is the present participle and gerund of lumberjack.

Meaning of lumberjack

Verb

lumberjack (third-person singular simple present lumberjacks, present participle lumberjacking, simple past and past participle lumberjacked)

  1. (transitive) To work as a lumberjack, cutting down trees.
    • Many of the lumberjacking memories have faded to black and white, the brightest moments colored mostly by Jim McKay’s yellow blazer.2009 July 28, John Branch, “Going Way of Old Growth”, in New York Times

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Questions about lumberjacking

What is lumberjacking the present participle and gerund of?
Lumberjacking is the present participle and gerund of lumberjack.

Words near lumberjacking in the dictionary

  1. lumberjack shirts
  2. lumberjacked
  3. lumberjacket
  4. lumberjacketed
  5. lumberjackets
  6. lumberjacking
  7. lumberjacks
  8. lumberjill
  9. lumberjills
  10. lumberless
  11. lumberly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lumberjacking (page history and authors); lumberjack (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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