Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act, activity, or job of cutting wood.
- noun The art or process of making woodcuts.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or employment of cutting wood by means of saws or by the application of knife-edge machinery.
- noun Wood-engraving.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or employment of cutting wood or timber.
- noun rare The act or art of engraving on wood.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
felling oftrees , or thecutting ofwood - noun The process of making
woodcuts
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Examples
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Around the larger urban centers, particularly Luanda, human settlement and activities such as woodcutting and livestock grazing have had considerable, though mostly localized, impacts on the vegetation and soils.
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For this reason, work details, such as woodcutting, which took prisoners outside of the camp, were discontinued.
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He mentions earlier that he had begun "woodcutting," and later (Dec. 15) that he paid the "collier," a tradesman who would have supervised the operation of the kiln.
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Dark Quest is a direct copy of RuneScape from 2004, with slight improvements to the complete removal of the word filter system, and the ability to single-click for repeat action such as woodcutting, fishing, mining, and other various tasks, which took ages to accomplish during the 2000-2003 of RuneScape by Jagex.
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Dark Quest is a direct copy of RuneScape from 2004, with slight improvements to the complete removal of the word filter system, and the ability to single-click for repeat action such as woodcutting, fishing, mining, and other various tasks, which took ages to accomplish during the 2000-2003 of RuneScape by Jagex.
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Curtis knew the victim and said he was a quiet man who did seasonal work, such as woodcutting and blueberry raking.
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Curtis knew the victim and said he was a quiet man who did seasonal work, such as woodcutting and blueberry raking.
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Curtis knew the victim and said he was a quiet man who did seasonal work, such as woodcutting and blueberry raking.
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Some of these experiments in novel game play go pop instead of sizzle, most notably a selection of honest jobs such as woodcutting that result in dull and repetitive button pressing.
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The pride comes through in his announcement of illuminated printing and its advantages in 1793 (E 692-693), his recipes for engraving and "woodcutting" on pewter (E 694), and his self-identification as the inventor of "W Blake's Original Stereotype .. .1788" at the end of The Ghost of Abel (1822), one of his last illuminated works (pl.
Introduction 2003
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