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backwoodsman

[bak-woodz-muhn] / ˈbækˈwʊdz mən /


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He managed to keep working in small projects in theater, films and TV, returning to the mainstream in 1983 with “Cross Creek,” in which he played table-smashing backwoodsman Marsh Turner.

From Fox News ● Jul. 10, 2019

“I felt every bit a backwoodsman, and it threw me off the mark.”

From The New Yorker ● Feb. 5, 2017

The Descent works so well because it adds a creepy Darwinian overtone to the well-worn horror staple of the inbred, bestial backwoodsman.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 25, 2016

Among them were “The Hunt,” in which a recently deceased backwoodsman is saved by his beloved hunting dog from accidentally wandering into Hell.

From Time ● Mar. 25, 2016

I will leave it to Mistress Owen if I looked like one, though I would I had the marksmanship of a backwoodsman.

From Peggy Owen Patriot A Story for Girls by Lucy Foster Madison

He was more than capable of inspiring his fellow rough-hewn backwoodsmen to join his command and leading them into battle, often to their detriment, but great leadership is only one aspect of command.

From Slate ● Mar. 5, 2022

Taxidermy, long the domain of backwoodsmen and museum employees, is enjoying a vogue lately among young urbanites, due in part to a back-to-the-land revival that also favors beards, flannel and butchery workshops.

From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2010

There, in a cheerful office off to one side of a hangar, Arnold's wife Carol receives shopping lists from the backwoodsmen on her short-wave radio; then she does all their marketing.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Cotton Blossom's theatre-saloon, where the troupe rehearses deshabillee of a morning, will seat 600 river-folk, farmers, backwoodsmen.

From Time Magazine Archive

Odd, though, that it should be preserved in America by none but backwoodsmen whose ancestors for two centuries never saw the tides!

From Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart




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