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woodsman

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Word definitions for woodsman in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. someone who lives in the woods [syn: woodman ] makes things out of wood [syn: woodworker , woodman ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Woodman \Wood"man\, n.; pl. Woodmen . [Written also woodsman .] A forest officer appointed to take care of the king's woods; a forester. [Eng.] A sportsman; a hunter. [The duke] is a better woodman than thou takest him for. --Shak. One who cuts down ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A man who lives and works in woodland; a forester or woodman.

Usage examples of woodsman.

She held what looked like a miniature camcorder in her left hand and a Colt Woodsman .

In those days, Kau and his brothers hunted as they pleased, taking paper money for many of their kills, flattering themselves they were woodsmen as skilled as their grandfathers had been, before the hills were laced with wires and pipelines and logging roads.

He knew about Aiel, and he did not need an unbarbered woodsman to tell him how to put his boots on.

Having caught your fish, you may cook him in a thousand ways, but it is doubtful whether, even with the finest sauce, a pompano will taste half as good as the infantile muskellunge, several pounds under the legal weight, fried unskilfully in pork fat by a horny-handed woodsman, kneeling before an open fire, eighteen minutes after you had given up all hope of having fish for dinner, and had resigned yourself to the dubious prospect of salt pork, eggs, and coffee which any self-respecting coffee-mill would fail to recognize.

And yet, through all of it, he was ever better inspired by the grasp of a common soldier, who had served with Carignan-Salieres, or by the greeting and gossip of such woodsmen as Du Lhut, Mantet, La Durantaye, and, most of all, his staunch friend Perrot, chief of the coureurs du bois.

This climbing-party he would himself lead, accompanied by his brother Sainte-Helene, Perrot, and a handful of agile woodsmen.

Iberville or Perrot could have done so instinctively, but he was not woodsman enough.

He studied the construction of the shack, how the woodsman had made it, how the nails and pinery worked.

Azoun Obarskyr had not played at being a forester since the most daring and pranksome days of his lass-chasing youth, but he sank down onto his knees in the soft forest moss as slowly and gently as any veteran woodsman.

Be strong in the Lord, a hunter of the demons, a subduer of the wilderness, a woodsman of the faith.

In the produce section, three Athabascan woodsmen looked over the apples while an old Chinese woman muttered to a bin of withered eggplants.

The warning reached Kwa with something more than the understanding with which a woodsman listens to his dog.

The fauns or nymphs protected their trees, bringing them water in times of drought and harassing woodsmen who wanted to chop the trees down.

From ambush, bandits screaming charge the packtrain and its prize, And all but four within the train are taken by surprise, And all but four are cut down as a woodsman fells a log The guardsman, and the lady, and the maiden, and the dog Three things know a secretfirst, the lady in a dream, The dog that barks no warning and the maid who does not scream.

While one may find farmers, husbandmen, woodsmen, teachers, machinists, and truck drivers among the ranks of religious fundamentalists--metallurgists, biologists, and medical technologists tend to be in short supply in those ranks.