WOODMAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does woodman mean? 

• WOODMAN (noun)
  The noun WOODMAN has 2 senses:

1. someone who lives in the woods

2. makes things out of wood

  Familiarity information: WOODMAN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOODMAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who lives in the woods

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

woodman; woodsman

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

rustic (an unsophisticated country person)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Makes things out of wood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

woodman; woodsman; woodworker

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

artificer; artisan; craftsman; journeyman (a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "woodman"):

cabinetmaker; furniture maker (a woodworker who specializes in making furniture)

carpenter (a woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects)

joiner (a woodworker whose work involves making things by joining pieces of wood)

splicer (a woodworker who joins pieces of wood with a splice)

carver; woodcarver (makes decorative wooden panels)

 Context examples 

Nay, I am woodman enough to see that no deer hath passed this way this morning; and yet the blood is fresh.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So they went on into the wood, till at last they came to the place where the woodman was.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

So, while they were walking through the forest, the Tin Woodman told the following story: I was born the son of a woodman who chopped down trees in the forest and sold the wood for a living.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I desired he would order several sticks of two feet high, and the thickness of an ordinary cane, to be brought me; whereupon his majesty commanded the master of his woods to give directions accordingly; and the next morning six woodmen arrived with as many carriages, drawn by eight horses to each.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

What I had to do, was, to take my woodman's axe in my hand, and clear my own way through the forest of difficulty, by cutting down the trees until I came to Dora.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Elbow room for Floyting Will!” cried the woodmen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So the woodman at last said he would sell Tom to the strangers for a large piece of gold, and they paid the price.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“By the holy Dicon of Hampole! our silent clerk has found his tongue,” said one of the woodmen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Do you stay behind,” said the woodman, “and when I have knocked him on the head you must rip him up with the scythe.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

“No man is my master save the King,” the woodman answered.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)