woodcutter
Americannoun
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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
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
“The Woodcutter #1,” for instance, shows a downed tree in a forest clearing – with no woodcutter in sight.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2016
After a great deal of Adam’s directing and pointing he could see a woodcutter emerging from the trees by the river.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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
The three new book-length fairy tales gathered here are all made up of the most common ingredients: ogres and witches, princesses and woodcutters.
From New York Times ● Sep. 10, 2021
Furloughs and layoffs mean less money to buy firewood from commercial woodcutters.
From Slate ● Jan. 29, 2021
As adults, they had become woodcutters, delivery men, factory workers.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 18, 2019
Baba had planted the grove when Neel was a baby, and he guarded the family trees fiercely from woodcutters.
From "Tiger Boy" by Mitali Perkins
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