Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A man who works or lives in the woods or is versed in woodcraft; a forester.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who dwells in or frequents the woods, as a wood-cutter, sportsman, hunter, or the like.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A woodman; especially, one who lives in the forest.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A man who
lives andworks inwoodland ; aforester orwoodman .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who lives in the woods
- noun makes things out of wood
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Examples
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This event turns a mountain woodsman into the most fearsome warrior the Drenai have seen, as he holds the line at Skeln pass with his friend Sieben, and the help of the Thirty.
Archive 2007-01-01 Blue Tyson 2007
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I do not love to see the "chips fly," or to hear that saddest of all sounds, the slow unwilling crashing down of a great live tree, which I have heard here in a lonely wilderness, which looked as if man had never set a foot in it, to a whistled accompaniment by the woodsman from the Trovatore, a good sample in its way of the savageness and civilization combined, which meet one here at every step.
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He vowed to wreak a woodsman's vengeance on any fellow who balked it by shaking the boat, or by moving body or rifle so as to make a noise.
Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods Isabel Hornibrook
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At times I would give utterance to the soft answering call, known to every woodsman, that is part of the freemasonry of animal speech.
Frenzied Fiction Stephen Leacock 1906
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I didn't know being a 'woodsman' was high on the 'earning capacity' list.
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Gaston, not she, should meet the "woodsman" in Lola Laval's deserted house.
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The issue of whether or not Dion is a 'woodsman' is not the issue - the damage that these comments by a journalist with the vast audience of Rex Murphy can do to Dion's credibility is.
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The good generally consist of one main color with a few shades higher and/or lower than it, giving you that true woodsman plaid look.
Welcome to the Flannel Channel pabba 2010
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Wetzel was a woodsman and an expert with an axe and long rifle.
Five American Soldiers That Make Action Heroes Look Wimpy | myFiveBest 2010
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He was a woodsman for much of his young life after running away from home and school at age 12.
To Be American: Part One - The Frontiersmen | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2009
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