Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A woodsman.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An officer appointed to take care of the king's woods; a forester.
- noun A woodsman; a hunter.
- noun One who fells timber.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun engraving A forest officer appointed to take care of the king's woods; a forester.
- noun A sportsman; a hunter.
- noun One who cuts down trees; a woodcutter.
- noun One who dwells in the woods or forest; a bushman.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun someone who
lives in thewood andmanages it; awoodsman - noun someone who makes things from
wood
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun makes things out of wood
- noun someone who lives in the woods
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Examples
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Is he the cowardly lion, the tin woodman, or Dorothy?
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Is he the cowardly lion, the tin woodman, or Dorothy?
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That "woodman" was Genji himself, who was here talking live words.
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She is also more passive than in the film (which gives the scarecrow, lion and woodman a bit more character development).
Further BC bah humbug nwhyte 2009
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Unable to sleep with the tin-brained woodman at work, Jerri went off to negotiate with Darth.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Heroes vs Villains : The Tin-Brained Woodman is Rusty. 2010
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Unable to sleep with the tin-brained woodman at work, Jerri went off to negotiate with Darth.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Heroes vs Villains: The Tin-Brained Woodman is Rusty. 2010
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But the axe slipped so often and cut off parts of him -- which he had replaced with tin -- that finally there was no flesh left, nothing but tin; so he became a real tin woodman.
Love Letters 2010
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And with that, the bear was gone, with the woodman chasing after him, crashing through the thick trees.
Archive 2009-05-01 David Hadley 2009
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And with that, the bear was gone, with the woodman chasing after him, crashing through the thick trees.
Goldilocks David Hadley 2009
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He said he lived on the confines of the forest, where his old father was a woodman, and, if she liked, he would take her so far on her road.
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