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WOODMAN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Makes things out of wood

Synonyms:

woodman; woodsman; woodworker

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("woodman" is a kind of...):

artificer; artisan; craftsman; journeyman (a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "woodman"):

cabinetmaker; furniture maker (a woodworker who specializes in making furniture)

carpenter (a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects)

joiner (a woodworker whose work involves making things by joining pieces of wood)

splicer (a woodworker who joins pieces of wood with a splice)

carver; woodcarver (makes decorative wooden panels)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who lives in the woods

Synonyms:

woodman; woodsman

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("woodman" is a kind of...):

rustic (an unsophisticated country person)

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 Context examples: 

So they went up to the woodman, and asked him what he would take for the little man.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

What say you, woodman: wilt leave the bucks to loose a shaft at a nobler mark?

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then the woodman laughed, and said, How can that be? you cannot reach up to the horse’s bridle.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

They plodded along together, the woodman and Alleyne, with little talk on either side, for their thoughts were as far asunder as the poles.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A poor woodman sat in his cottage one night, smoking his pipe by the fireside, while his wife sat by his side spinning.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Two of the woodmen and three of the laborers drank their portions off hurriedly and trooped off together, for their homes were distant and the hour late.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

One day, as the woodman was getting ready to go into the wood to cut fuel, he said, I wish I had someone to bring the cart after me, for I want to make haste.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

So distrait was he and so random his answers, that the woodman took to whistling, and soon branched off upon the track to Burley, leaving Alleyne upon the main Christchurch road.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When the time came the mother harnessed the horse to the cart, and put Tom into his ear; and as he sat there the little man told the beast how to go, crying out, Go on! and Stop! as he wanted: and thus the horse went on just as well as if the woodman had driven it himself into the wood.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“If you dare open that swine's mouth against me,” shouted the woodman, “I'll crop your ears for you before the hangman has the doing of it, thou long-jawed lackbrain.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)