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View synonyms for woodsman

woodsman

[ woodz-muhn ]

noun

, plural woods·men.
  1. Also a person accustomed to life in the woods and skilled in the arts of the woods, as hunting or trapping.
  2. a lumberman.


woodsman

/ ˈwʊdzmən /

noun

  1. a person who lives in a wood or who is skilled in woodcraft Also calledwoodman
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of woodsman1

1680–90; wood 1 + -s 3 + man
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Example Sentences

She lay on the warm ridge, thinking of many things that the woodsman's appearance had stirred up in her.

He was a mighty woodsman now, and could make a spray of chips fly around him as he hewed his way through the trunk of spruce-tree.

Through the hollow of his hands he cried out the long, musical, morning call of the woodsman.

In the laugh that followed, Sammy was claimed by a tall woodsman for the next dance, and escaped to take her place on the floor.

In the loss of his stock the woodsman would lose all he had won in years of toil from the mountain wilderness.

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