Crossword clues for woodman
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.]
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A sportsman; a hunter.
[The duke] is a better woodman than thou takest him for.
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One who cuts down trees; a woodcutter.
Woodman, spare that tree.
--G. P. Morris. One who dwells in the woods or forest; a bushman.
Wiktionary
n. 1 someone who lives in the wood and manages it; a woodsman 2 someone who makes things from wood
WordNet
n. someone who lives in the woods [syn: woodsman]
makes things out of wood [syn: woodworker, woodsman]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 52
Land area (2000): 0.235535 sq. miles (0.610033 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.235535 sq. miles (0.610033 sq. km)
FIPS code: 88825
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 43.092098 N, 90.801077 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 53827
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Woodman
Wikipedia
Woodman is an archaic term for the employment in logging. It also may refer to:
Woodman (1983–2007) was an American-bred Thoroughbred racehorse who raced in Ireland but who is best known as a sire of a number of important racehorses.
A descendant of the great sire Nearco through both his dam, Playmate, and his Champion sire, Mr. Prospector, Woodman was a Champion 2-year-old colt in Ireland but was retired to stud duty after five races. Returned to the United States, he stood at Ashford Stud in Versailles, Kentucky. Among his offspring, Woodman sired:
- Hansel - winner of the 1991 Preakness and Belmont Stakes and American Champion Three-Year-Old Male Horse
- Timber Country - the 1994 Breeders' Cup Juvenile and Preakness Stakes winner
- Bosra Sham - 1996 European Champion 3-Year-Old Filly whose Group One wins include the British Classic, the 1,000 Guineas, and the Champion Stakes
- Hector Protector - multiple stakes winner in France including three Group Ones at age two in 1990: Grand Critérium, Prix Morny, Prix de la Salamandre plus two more Group Ones at age three in 1991: Poule d'Essai des Poulains, Prix Jacques Le Marois
- Woodcarver - the 1999 Canadian Champion 3-Year-Old Colt and Queen's Plate winner
- Hawk Wing - top two-year-old of 2001 in the United Kingdom and Ireland
Woodman was the damsire of Wando, the 2003 Canadian Triple Crown champion, and of Kinsale King, winner of the 2010 Dubai Golden Shaheen.
At age twenty-four, Woodman was humanely euthanized due to the infirmities of old age on July 19, 2007.
Usage examples of "woodman".
Call Hugh of the Mill, and Woodman Wat, and Raoul with his arbalest and bolts.
I was a young maiden five years ago: look now and pity the maiden that lay on the grass of the forest, and the woodman a-passing by deemed her dead five years ago.
Woodmen told us that the Upmeads carles, though they be not many, are strong and dauntless, and since we now had pleasant life before us, with good thralls to work for us, and with plenty of fair women for our bed-mates, we deemed it best to have the most numbers we might, so that we might over-whelm the said carles at one blow, and get as few of ourselves slain as might be.
His sword screamed and crashed, hewing enemies as a woodman hews saplings, a blur of blue flame in the night.
Bilger wanted the Sunday School chairs for the Eastern Star banquet on the same night that Lida Kronk had promised them to the Modern Woodmen of which her Claude was the Chief Axe-Swinger, or whatever it was.
There was peace in Brethil, and the woodmen held themselves quiet and went not abroad, and they heard no tidings of the lands that lay about them.
Since she can mimic not his lips, more dear Than those for whose disdain she pined away Into a shadow of all sounds:--a drear Murmur, between their songs, is all the woodmen hear.
So musing, presently the firelight died down, and bulky forms of hide-wrapped woodmen sleeping on the floor slowly disappeared in obscurity like ranges of mountains disappearing in the darkness of night.
The dusk was falling over the jungle when they reached the camp of the Panthays, a deep cave in the side of the ravine, where a few simple cooking-pots and a small store of rice furnished all the woodmen needed.
Robert saw a daughter whose mother was polymastic, and Woodman saw a mother and eldest daughter who each had three nipples.
So, when the Jackdaws nearly knocked him down in their rush of wings, and their sharp beaks and claws threatened to damage his brilliant plating, the Woodman picked up his axe and made it whirl swiftly around his head.
West country of the Winkies, where the Tin Woodman rules, everything is yellow.
Woodman with undisguised amazement, and noticed that the celebrated Emperor of the Winkies was composed entirely of pieces of tin, neatly soldered and riveted together into the form of a man.
The moment he caught that ambrosial invitation in the air my woodman spit fiercely on the ground, and taking a plug of wool from his pouch stuffed his nostrils up.
Now that Sir John Hawkwood hath gone with the East Anglian lads and the Nottingham woodmen into the service of the Marquis of Montferrat to fight against the Lord of Milan, there are but ten score of us left, yet I trust that I may be able to bring some back with me to fill the ranks of the White Company.