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Then in church one Sunday he heard a minister use the simile of woodmen clearing away the forest near their homes for safety's sake.

From Time Magazine Archive

He sat dreaming, remembering his timber-cruising trip, remembering the choppers and woodmen he had known around Grandfather's.

From Rough-Hewn by Canfield, Dorothy

Swinging to his left, he went up the hill, through Bloody Lane, as though towards Dinsmore, but was again deflected by woodmen.

From Reynard the Fox by Masefield, John

With that he set all the carpenters and woodmen who were to be found round about to chop and hew all his beams up into small logs.

From Tales from the Fjeld A Second Series of Popular Tales by Asbj?rnsen, P. Chr.

On my return, I sat on this very log, and talked to some woodmen, and asked the name of a modest flower.

From The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)