woodman
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woodman¹
- /ˈwʊdmən/
Where it comes from
From Middle English woodeman, wodeman, from Old English wudemann, wudumann (“woodman”), equivalent to wood + -man.
noun woodmen
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Someone who cuts down trees or cuts up, splits, and sells wood.
As thro’ the shrilling Vale, or Mountain Ground,
The Labours of the Woodman’s Axe resound;
Blows following Blows are heard re-echoing wide,
While crackling Forests fall on ev’ry side.
Thus echo’d all the Fields with loud Alarms,
So fell the Warriors, and so rung their Arms.
Similar: woodcutter, lumberjack, wooder
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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.
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 […]
Similar: woodsman, forester, forest ranger
- Someone who makes things from wood.
- Someone who hunts animals in a wood, hunter, huntsman. You, Polydote, have proved best woodman and Are master of the feast: Cadwal and I Will play the cook and servant; ’tis our match: The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.
- Someone who lives in the woods and is considered to be uncivilized or barbaric, a savage. […] yonder in that faithfull wildernesse Huge monsters haunt, and many dangers dwell; Dragons, and Minotaures, and feendes of hell, And many wilde woodmen, which robbe & rend All traveilers […]
Woodman²
proper noun
- A surname.
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noun someone who cuts down trees or cuts and sells wood
| Français | bûcheron |
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