woodsman

[ woodz-muhn ]
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noun,plural woods·men.
  1. Also woodman. a person accustomed to life in the woods and skilled in the arts of the woods, as hunting or trapping.

  2. a lumberman.

Origin of woodsman

1
1680–90; wood1 + -s3 + man

Words Nearby woodsman

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How to use woodsman in a sentence

  • She lay on the warm ridge, thinking of many things that the woodsman's appearance had stirred up in her.

    Summer | Edith Wharton
  • He was a mighty woodsman now, and could make a spray of chips fly around him as he hewed his way through the trunk of spruce-tree.

    The First Christmas Tree | Henry Van Dyke
  • Through the hollow of his hands he cried out the long, musical, morning call of the woodsman.

    Blazed Trail Stories | Stewart Edward White
  • In the laugh that followed, Sammy was claimed by a tall woodsman for the next dance, and escaped to take her place on the floor.

    The Shepherd of the Hills | Harold Bell Wright
  • In the loss of his stock the woodsman would lose all he had won in years of toil from the mountain wilderness.

    The Shepherd of the Hills | Harold Bell Wright

British Dictionary definitions for woodsman

woodsman

/ (ˈwʊdzmən) /


nounplural -men
  1. a person who lives in a wood or who is skilled in woodcraft: Also called: woodman

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