woodcutter

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person whose work is cutting down trees or cutting timber into firewood

   The woodcutter felled the damaged pine before it could fall across the road.

2. 2
   noun

   an artist or craftsperson who makes pictures or printing blocks by cutting designs into wood

   The woodcutter carved the reversed design carefully before the first print was pulled.

A transparent compound of wood + cutter. The occupational sense refers to felling trees or chopping wood; the artistic sense uses cutter for a person who cuts an image into a wooden block for printing.

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