Woodman

//ˈwʊdmən// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    a man who lives in the woods wordnet
  3. 3
    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 […]"

  4. 4
    a man who makes things out of wood wordnet
  5. 5
    Someone who makes things from wood.
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  1. 6
    Someone who hunts animals in a wood, hunter, huntsman. obsolete

    "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."

  2. 7
    Someone who lives in the woods and is considered to be uncivilized or barbaric, a savage. obsolete

    "[…] 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 […]"

Etymology

From Middle English woodeman, wodeman, from Old English wudemann, wudumann (“woodman”), equivalent to wood + -man.

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