woodcutter
Americannoun
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woodcutters
plural
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a person who cuts down trees for firewood.
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a person who makes woodcuts.
noun
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a person who fells trees or chops wood
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a person who makes woodcuts
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The woodcutter claims he had found a samurai’s body in the forest near Nara.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
The list of day jobs for Almazán’s players included a shepherd, a woodcutter, a chicken breeder, a singer and a tai chi instructor.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2022
She had been led to believe that the case against Ali Kololo - an illiterate woodcutter and honey gatherer - was compelling.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2022
Then she frowns when a woodcutter enters the picture and, despite the tree's protests, cuts it down.
From Salon ● May 10, 2022
There was a wolf and a woodcutter with an ax.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
He described the tranquility of his beloved Walden Pond interrupted, now and again, by locomotives whistling, bells ringing, woodcutters chopping, cattle cars and wagons rumbling over bridges.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 12, 2021
Images of fishermen and woodcutters going about their tasks correspond to those of shepherds in the pastoral tradition of European art.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2021
It has been a long time since “fairy tale” meant damsels in distress or worthy knights and woodcutters.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 8, 2021
And lately, professional woodcutters, Indigenous community activists, and tribal officials have collaborated with the U.S.
From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2021
And it also let woodcutters upstream send logs almost to Monks Mound.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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