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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 dim forest within Hacked from my roots, Haled on by rude woodmen Bracing sinewy shoulders Up the steep mountain side, Till aloft on the summit Firmly they fastened me.

From On the Cross A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau by Hillern, Wilhelmine von

Printed by R. Ihones, at the Rose and Crowne, neere Holburne Bridge, 1590,” it appears that woodmen went about with their beetles and wedges on their backs, crying “Have you any wood to cleave?”

From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Hindley, Charles

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

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 Werner, E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers)