woodman
IPA: wˈʊdmʌn
noun
- (obsolete) Someone who hunts animals in a wood, hunter, huntsman.
- Someone who cuts down trees or cuts and sells wood, lumberjack, woodcutter.
- Someone who lives in the wood and manages it; a woodsman; (by extension) someone who spends time in the woods and has a strong familiarity with that environment.
- (obsolete) Someone who lives in the woods and is considered to be uncivilized or barbaric, a savage.
- Someone who makes things from wood.
- A surname.
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Examples of "woodman" in Sentences
- Is he the cowardly lion, the tin woodman, or Dorothy?
- That "woodman" was Genji himself, who was here talking live words.
- Unable to sleep with the tin-brained woodman at work, Jerri went off to negotiate with Darth.
- And with that, the bear was gone, with the woodman chasing after him, crashing through the thick trees.
- She is also more passive than in the film (which gives the scarecrow, lion and woodman a bit more character development).
- He said he lived on the confines of the forest, where his old father was a woodman, and, if she liked, he would take her so far on her road.
- But the axe slipped so often and cut off parts of him -- which he had replaced with tin -- that finally there was no flesh left, nothing but tin; so he became a real tin woodman.
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