Woodman

Quick meaning: Woodman is a noun meaning Someone who cuts down trees or cuts up, splits, and sells wood.

Meaning

Someone who cuts down trees or cuts up, splits, and sells wood.

More Meanings

1. Someone who makes things from wood.
2. Someone who lives in the wood and manages it; (by extension) someone who spends time in the woods and has a strong familiarity with that environment.
3. (obsolete) Someone who hunts animals in a wood, hunter, huntsman.
4. (obsolete) Someone who lives in the woods and is considered to be uncivilized or barbaric, a savage.

Example Sentences

The second examination is for a woodman’s badge. To pass, he is required to light a fire, using no paper and striking no more than three matches.

Our walk was far among the ancient trees: There was no road, nor any wood-man’s path, But the thick umbrage, checking the wild growth Of weed and sapling […]

One afternoon, I went with Mrs. Salter-Townshend on a tour of all her rental properties, which ranged from a woodman’s cottage on the old Somerville estate to a tower in the harbor-front castle.

Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it shelter’d me, And I’ll protect it now. ’Twas my forefather’s hand That placed it near his cot; There, woodman, let it stand, Thy axe shall harm it not!

Word Forms

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Synonyms for woodman

Depending on context, synonyms include woodcutter, lumberjack, wooder, woodsman, forester, woodworker.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include woodsman, woodworker, wolf-hunter, woodcutter, hunter, huntsperson.

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