woodsman

[ woodz-muhn ]

noun

, plural woods·men.

1. Also a person accustomed to life in the woods and skilled in the arts of the woods, as hunting or trapping.
2. a lumberman.

woodsman

/ ˈwʊdzmən /

noun

1. a person who lives in a wood or who is skilled in woodcraft Also calledwoodman

Word History and Origins

Origin of woodsman¹

1680–90; wood ¹ + -s 3 + man

Example Sentences

She lay on the warm ridge, thinking of many things that the woodsman's appearance had stirred up in her.

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He was a mighty woodsman now, and could make a spray of chips fly around him as he hewed his way through the trunk of spruce-tree.

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Through the hollow of his hands he cried out the long, musical, morning call of the woodsman.

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In the laugh that followed, Sammy was claimed by a tall woodsman for the next dance, and escaped to take her place on the floor.

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In the loss of his stock the woodsman would lose all he had won in years of toil from the mountain wilderness.

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