Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act, activity, or job of cutting wood.
  • noun The art or process of making woodcuts.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act or employment of cutting wood by means of saws or by the application of knife-edge machinery.
  • noun Wood-engraving.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act or employment of cutting wood or timber.
  • noun rare The act or art of engraving on wood.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The felling of trees, or the cutting of wood
  • noun The process of making woodcuts

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Examples

  • Around the larger urban centers, particularly Luanda, human settlement and activities such as woodcutting and livestock grazing have had considerable, though mostly localized, impacts on the vegetation and soils.

    Angolan scarp savanna and woodlands 2008

  • For this reason, work details, such as woodcutting, which took prisoners outside of the camp, were discontinued.

    DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE REPORT 1996

  • He mentions earlier that he had begun "woodcutting," and later (Dec. 15) that he paid the "collier," a tradesman who would have supervised the operation of the kiln.

    Robert Carter Diary, 1724 1724

  • Dark Quest is a direct copy of RuneScape from 2004, with slight improvements to the complete removal of the word filter system, and the ability to single-click for repeat action such as woodcutting, fishing, mining, and other various tasks, which took ages to accomplish during the 2000-2003 of RuneScape by Jagex.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • Dark Quest is a direct copy of RuneScape from 2004, with slight improvements to the complete removal of the word filter system, and the ability to single-click for repeat action such as woodcutting, fishing, mining, and other various tasks, which took ages to accomplish during the 2000-2003 of RuneScape by Jagex.

    WN.com - Business News 2010

  • Curtis knew the victim and said he was a quiet man who did seasonal work, such as woodcutting and blueberry raking.

    BangorDailyNews.com - News 2009

  • Curtis knew the victim and said he was a quiet man who did seasonal work, such as woodcutting and blueberry raking.

    BangorDailyNews.com - News 2009

  • Curtis knew the victim and said he was a quiet man who did seasonal work, such as woodcutting and blueberry raking.

    BangorDailyNews.com - News 2009

  • Some of these experiments in novel game play go pop instead of sizzle, most notably a selection of honest jobs such as woodcutting that result in dull and repetitive button pressing.

    The Globe and Mail - Technology RSS feed 2008

  • The pride comes through in his announcement of illuminated printing and its advantages in 1793 (E 692-693), his recipes for engraving and "woodcutting" on pewter (E 694), and his self-identification as the inventor of "W Blake's Original Stereotype .. .1788" at the end of The Ghost of Abel (1822), one of his last illuminated works (pl.

    Introduction 2003

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