woodsman
Americannoun
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woodsmen
plural
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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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A "passionate" woodsman who spent almost four decades caring for wildlife has retired.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
“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
As a woodsman, pay starts at $17.50 per hour plus benefits.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 6, 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
They said the City makes you lonely, but since I’d been trained by the best woodsman ever, loneliness was a thing couldn’t get near me.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
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
“And we’d laugh about it. It’s funny … we’re not woodsmen and we’ve been in the woods for weeks.”
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
He sent to far kingdoms for woodsmen, carpenters, metalsmiths, goldsmiths—also carters, victualed, clothiers to attend to the workmen—and for weeks their uproar filled the days and nights.
From "Grendel" by John Gardner
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