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woodsman

[woodz-muhn] / ˈwʊdz mən /
NOUN
person who lives/works in the woods
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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

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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