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
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
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
"Why soon The woodman will be here; how we have lived this night of June."
From Oscar Wilde by Leonard Cresswell Ingleby
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
He would go to Warden Forest and see that beautiful face again, though he had to brave the anger of twenty mysterious woodmen.
From Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir by Charles Garvice
Thus the hapless woodmen were fettered not merely by the logs of wood, as on the previous day, but by chains that bound them to the very trees they were to cut down.
From With Drake on the Spanish Main by Herbert Strang
You and I are woodmen enough to follow a trail made by twenty horses.
From Bert Wilson at Panama by J. W. Duffield
A detachment was sent instantly to find a way over the cliff, while woodmen with axes went out and laid furiously upon the pines.
From The Plowshare and the Sword A Tale of Old Quebec by John Trevena
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