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WOODCUTTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does woodcutter mean? 

WOODCUTTER (noun)
  The noun WOODCUTTER has 1 sense:

1. cuts down trees and chops wood as a jobplay

  Familiarity information: WOODCUTTER used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


WOODCUTTER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Cuts down trees and chops wood as a job

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("woodcutter" is a kind of...):

jack; laborer; labourer; manual laborer (someone who works with their hands; someone engaged in manual labor)

Instance hyponyms:

Ali Baba (the fictional woodcutter who discovered that 'open sesame' opened a cave in the Arabian Nights' Entertainment)


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