woodchopper
Example Sentences
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It’s a counterintuitive fact that a player with the supplest shot in the NBA, whose overarching quality is feel, has the hands and work habits of a woodchopper.
From Washington Post • Apr. 8, 2016
Nobody seriously expected much of Uzcudun, the 34-year-old Basque woodchopper whom Carnera had defeated three years ago.
From Time Magazine Archive
On her wedding night, Caroline discovers that her husband is a boor: he is "panting like a woodchopper felling young birches in the forests of Touraine."
From Time Magazine Archive
Pauline Uzcudun, sister of Paulino, is also a Basque woodchopper and weighs 220 Ib.
From Time Magazine Archive
And there he was, the woodchopper, swinging up and swinging down again.
From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
