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FORESTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone trained in forestry
Synonyms:
arboriculturist; forester; tree farmer
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("forester" is a kind of...):
farmer; granger; husbandman; sodbuster (a person who operates a farm)
Sense 2
Meaning:
English writer of adventure novels featuring Captain Horatio Hornblower (1899-1966)
Synonyms:
C. S. Forester; Cecil Scott Forester; Forester
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Context examples:
“If it come to that.” said one of the foresters, “the tough meat of them will wear folks teeth out, and there is a trade for the man who can draw them.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So Lina said, no, she would never repeat it to anyone, and then the cook said: Early tomorrow morning, when the forester is out hunting, I will heat the water, and when it is boiling in the kettle, I will throw in Fundevogel, and will boil him in it.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Two of the company, who were dressed in the weather-stained green doublet of foresters, lifted the big pot off the fire, and a third, with a huge pewter ladle, served out a portion of steaming collops to each guest.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
By All Saints' day, however ere the last leaves had fluttered to earth in the Wilverley and Holmesley glades, he had filled up his full numbers, and mustered under his banner as stout a following of Hampshire foresters as ever twanged their war-bows.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The forester shook his head.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Both the foresters and the laborers had risen from their bench, and Dame Eliza and the travelling doctor had flung themselves between the two parties with soft words and soothing gestures, when the door of the Pied Merlin was flung violently open, and the attention of the company was drawn from their own quarrel to the new-comer who had burst so unceremoniously upon them.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“It would take a clever man to live upon thy labor, Hugh,” remarked one of the foresters, “seeing that the half of thy time is spent in swilling mead at the 'Pied Merlin.'”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The remaining forester and the two laborers were also ready for the road, and the rest of the company turned to the blankets which Dame Eliza and the maid had laid out for them upon the floor.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
