木きこり

noun

woodcutter; lumberjack; logger

Refers to a person whose job is cutting down trees or logging. The word is straightforward and neutral in register.

• 祖そ父ふは若わかい頃ころ、山やまで木きこりをしていた。

  My grandfather worked as a woodcutter in the mountains when he was young.

• 木きこりが斧おので大おおきな木きを切きり倒たおした。

  The lumberjack felled a large tree with an axe.