woodman

American  

[wood-muhn] / ˈwʊd mən /

noun

woodmen plural

1. woodsman.

2. a person who fells timber, especially for fuel.

3. British.

   1. a forester having charge of the king's woods.

   2. a woodcutter.

   3. a dealer in wood, especially one who sells kindling wood.

4. Obsolete. a hunter of forest game.

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woodman British  

/ ˈwʊdmən /

noun

1. a person who looks after and fells trees used for timber

2. another word for woodsman

3. obsolete a hunter who is knowledgeable about woods and the animals living in them

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• woodmancraft
  noun

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• woodmen
  plural

Etymology

Origin of woodman

before 1000; Middle English wodeman, Old English wudumann. See wood ¹, man

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

woodman woodmen

He lowers himself to the floor with difficulty, like an unoiled tin woodman.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 16, 2015

They went up to the small munching woodman, who did not seem to have seen them, and asked him where the glades were trading to.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Each company was guided by a wild woodman; but old Ghân walked beside the king.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

He, like the woodman, was the colour of mahogany, and the curled hairs on his chest made a golden haze where the sun caught them.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

This woodman was in possession of a house which had been a thousand years in process of building.

From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by Bartlett, William Chauncey

Then in church one Sunday he heard a minister use the simile of woodmen clearing away the forest near their homes for safety's sake.

From Time Magazine Archive

The woodmen jocularly say that the branch grew in the night, and so could not see its way.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard

The spring rambler in the woods may come upon a party of woodmen stripping young Oaks of their bark, or felling them, whilst cylinders of separated bark rest across poles in the process of drying.

From Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva by Step, Edward

Can you make a steeple fall this way or that way, as woodmen make trees fall?

From Careers of Danger and Daring by Moffett, Cleveland

Swinging to his left, he went up the hill, through Bloody Lane, as though towards Dinsmore, but was again deflected by woodmen.

From Reynard the Fox by Masefield, John