woodsman
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This led police to believe that Hart was an expert woodsman and exceptionally skilled at hiding in the vast wilderness.
From Salon ● May 26, 2022
Part one of Inscryption locks you in a cabin with a vicious woodsman who will only release you if you beat him in a succession of card games.
From The Verge ● Dec. 14, 2021
Despite a duet with certified country man Chris Stapleton and a song actually called “Flannel,” JT’s supposed woodsman makeover proved a bit of a pump fake.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2018
A skilled woodsman, tough and common-born, Boone came to the world’s attention thanks to a land speculator named John Filson.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2018
I had read so much about the loneliness of the farmer, the trapper, the woodsman during the bleakness of winter that I had come to believe it.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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Some—like the Shakespeare-reading New Hampshire farmer John Ordway and the Kentucky woodsmen Joseph and Reuben Field—were poor and bored and ready for adventure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Moments of recognizable Twin Peaks lore punctuate a tale about the cyclical battle between good and evil, set in a 1950s New Mexico town invaded by mysterious woodsmen.
From The Verge ● Jan. 2, 2018
“And we’d laugh about it. It’s funny … we’re not woodsmen and we’ve been in the woods for weeks.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 17, 2016
And there are far more surreal story lines that involve Sally as a vast flying machine and another one of woodsmen wandering inside the body of Jefferson.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2016
In woods where the woodsmen told lies, maybe it was the wolves who told the truth.
From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu
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