Wood-hewer
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who earns a living by splitting wood.
"But the present task was hateful to him; for any big-armed yokel, or common wood-hewer, might have done as much as he could do, and perhaps more, at it, and could have taken the same wage over it."
Example
More examples"But the present task was hateful to him; for any big-armed yokel, or common wood-hewer, might have done as much as he could do, and perhaps more, at it, and could have taken the same wage over it."
Etymology
From wood + hewer.
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