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woodsman

[woodz-muhn] / ˈwʊdz mən /
NOUN
person who lives/works in the woods
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Audubon saw himself as a woodsman, as well as a naturalist, and he used strikingly bellicose language to describe his travels and research.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 29, 2023

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

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

He is said to be an experienced woodsman who can survive in remote areas for long periods of time.

From BBC ● Aug. 22, 2018

She thought again of the woodsman, and what he might have told her, and hoped there were as many woodsmen here as wolves.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu

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 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

Oldstone-Moore describes the link between an affected “bearded manliness” of the upper middle class and throwback hobbies such as hunting and mountaineering—an early wave of urban woodsmen.

From Slate ● Dec. 3, 2014

Hazel had believed in woodsmen and magic shoes and swanskins and the easy magic of a compass.

From "Breadcrumbs" by Anne Ursu




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