woodman
noun
woodmen
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pluralof woodman.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Here one primeval pine-tree had been luckily left standing by the otherwise unsparing woodmen, who long ago had cleared that meadow.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
The men had seventy axes in all, and the most skillful and able woodmen in the company were immediately set at work to fell the trees.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 by
On one side of the fallen tree was a place where the wood had been cut away, and the woodmen had made themselves a little hut, which they had now left empty.
From The Fairchild Family by Florence M. Rudland
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
