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Woodman
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- 1 A surname.
- 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 a man who lives in the woods wordnet
- 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 a man who makes things out of wood wordnet
- 5 Someone who makes things from wood.
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- 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."
- 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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