noun

• (chiefly in South Australia) a lumberjack working on a forested mountain range.

  ‘stringybark for buildings in Adelaide was cut by the tiersmen’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The first hanging in the Colony was that of Magee, a tiersman.’
  • ‘These places, owing to want of money amongst the tiersmen, are evidently falling off.’
  • ‘They lived in the Adelaide Hills, probably with the Tiersmen in the stringybark forests, felling trees, erecting rough houses and post-and-rail fences.’
  • ‘I have since been told that one of the tiersmen pushed Curran's arm on one side, thereby probably saving the escaping man's life.’
  • ‘The amusement frequently ran to free fights in the pit, especially when the Tiersmen and whalers were in town.’
  • ‘The cattle-stealers brought drafts of cattle into the gullies, where the cattle were killed, skinned, and sold to the tiersmen.’