Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who chops wood, especially one who chops down trees.

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  • noun A person who chops wood; a lumberjack
  • noun A person who woodchops as a sport

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Examples

  • LEE: It's going to be difficult and you'll have to find something like one of our most famous cases called woodchopper murder case and the husband, you know, put the wife's body in a commercial woodchopper, chopped into pieces, blew in the water.

    CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2005 2005

  • Though everybody called the woodchopper Uncle Jack, his real name is John

    The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City Laura Lee Hope

  • “Audience participation improvisation!” announced the actor who had played a woodchopper in an earlier scene of the mashed-up fairy tales.

    Times Squared Julia DeVillers 2011

  • They are the shoes of the woodchopper, very thick on the sole with hard leather, with many iron nails.

    CHAPTER XXXVI 2010

  • The actor who played the woodchopper came back out onstage.

    Times Squared Julia DeVillers 2011

  • The actor who played the woodchopper came back out onstage.

    Times Squared Julia DeVillers 2011

  • “Audience participation improvisation!” announced the actor who had played a woodchopper in an earlier scene of the mashed-up fairy tales.

    Times Squared Julia DeVillers 2011

  • God offered the covenant not just to "your tribal heads, your elders and your officials," but "to all the men of Israel," and not just to them, but "to your children, your wives, even the stranger within your camp, from woodchopper to water drawer."

    New Words for a New Year—Karla Goldman's Sermon 2010

  • We thought it strange that this woodchopper should have killed men and taken no wounds himself, so I asked what Langmyrne had he slain.

    THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010

  • Baxter sat beating the skins like a weary woodchopper, while the rest of the band played Ping-Pong and Space Invaders in the outer lounge and calculated their hourly pay.

    EVENING’S EMPIRE BILL FLANAGAN 2010

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