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

noun

• woodmen
  plural

Etymology

Origin of woodman

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

Example Sentences

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

From Washington Post • Sep. 16, 2015

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

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

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