woodman
Americannoun
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woodmen
plural
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a person who fells timber, especially for fuel.
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British.
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a forester having charge of the king's woods.
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a woodcutter.
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a dealer in wood, especially one who sells kindling wood.
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Obsolete. a hunter of forest game.
noun
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a person who looks after and fells trees used for timber
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another word for woodsman
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obsolete a hunter who is knowledgeable about woods and the animals living in them
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Etymology
Origin of woodman
before 1000; Middle English wodeman, Old English wudumann. See wood 1, man
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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
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
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
Not unfrequently has the axe of the woodman been stayed by the voice of the nymph breaking from the groaning oak.
From The South Isles of Aran by Oliver J. Burke
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 ranger had assembled all his troop--five or six foresters under his orders, and some woodmen.
From Under a Charm, Vol. III. (of III) A Novel by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner
“They are whitesmiths, servants, farm-labourers, woodmen, men of sordid trades, beggars,” says Theodoret.
From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by John Henry Newman
Yet it was clearly these trees upon which the unseen woodmen were at work.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang
Peterson sprang away, and in an instant returned with a jug of water which had been brought by the woodmen in the morning for their use.
From The Frontier Angel A Romance of Kentucky Rangers' Life by Edward Sylvester Ellis
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