woodman

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a person whose work is cutting trees or chopping and preparing wood

   A woodman had felled the damaged trees and stacked their trimmed branches nearby.

2. 2
   noun

   a person who lives or works in woodland and is skilled in managing or traveling through it

   The experienced woodman recognized the animal's trail beneath the leaves.

From Middle English woodeman and Old English wudumann, a compound of wood + man. It has long denoted both a worker who fells or prepares timber and a person experienced in living or working in woodland.

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