woodsman
IPA: wˈʊdzmæn
noun
- A man who lives and works in woodland; a forester or woodman.
- (attributive) Designating a group of sports related to forestry culture, including axe throwing, wood splitting, wood chopping, axe cutting, chainsaw cutting, pulpwood tossing, log rolling and decking, pole climbing, and fire building.
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Examples of "woodsman" in Sentences
- Wetzel was a woodsman and an expert with an axe and long rifle.
- I didn't know being a 'woodsman' was high on the 'earning capacity' list.
- Gaston, not she, should meet the "woodsman" in Lola Laval's deserted house.
- He was a woodsman for much of his young life after running away from home and school at age 12.
- 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.
- At times I would give utterance to the soft answering call, known to every woodsman, that is part of the freemasonry of animal speech.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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