woodsman
Americannoun
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Also a person accustomed to life in the woods and skilled in the arts of the woods, as hunting or trapping.
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a lumberman.
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“Almost everything I write is a product of nature,” said Sgah’gahsowáh, who describes himself as “a woodsman who likes fishing and stuff,” as well as an avid hiker.
From New York Times ● Jul. 5, 2023
Audubon saw himself as a woodsman, as well as a naturalist, and he used strikingly bellicose language to describe his travels and research.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2023
This led police to believe that Hart was an expert woodsman and exceptionally skilled at hiding in the vast wilderness.
From Salon ● May 26, 2022
Part one of Inscryption locks you in a cabin with a vicious woodsman who will only release you if you beat him in a succession of card games.
From The Verge ● Dec. 14, 2021
She’s tricked and almost eaten, until a woodsman saves her.
From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega
Some—like the Shakespeare-reading New Hampshire farmer John Ordway and the Kentucky woodsmen Joseph and Reuben Field—were poor and bored and ready for adventure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Moments of recognizable Twin Peaks lore punctuate a tale about the cyclical battle between good and evil, set in a 1950s New Mexico town invaded by mysterious woodsmen.
From The Verge ● Jan. 2, 2018
“It was actually kind of a running joke between him and me because on the radio they’re like, ‘Oh they’re not woodsmen, this and that,’” Mr. Sweat said.
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2016
Oldstone-Moore describes the link between an affected “bearded manliness” of the upper middle class and throwback hobbies such as hunting and mountaineering—an early wave of urban woodsmen.
From Slate ● Dec. 3, 2014
In woods where the woodsmen told lies, maybe it was the wolves who told the truth.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
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