woodsman
Also woodman. a person accustomed to life in the woods and skilled in the arts of the woods, as hunting or trapping.
a lumberman.
Origin of woodsman
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How to use woodsman in a sentence
She lay on the warm ridge, thinking of many things that the woodsman's appearance had stirred up in her.
Summer | Edith WhartonHe was a mighty woodsman now, and could make a spray of chips fly around him as he hewed his way through the trunk of spruce-tree.
The First Christmas Tree | Henry Van DykeThrough the hollow of his hands he cried out the long, musical, morning call of the woodsman.
Blazed Trail Stories | Stewart Edward WhiteIn the laugh that followed, Sammy was claimed by a tall woodsman for the next dance, and escaped to take her place on the floor.
The Shepherd of the Hills | Harold Bell WrightIn the loss of his stock the woodsman would lose all he had won in years of toil from the mountain wilderness.
The Shepherd of the Hills | Harold Bell Wright
British Dictionary definitions for woodsman
/ (ˈwʊdzmən) /
a person who lives in a wood or who is skilled in woodcraft: Also called: woodman
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