woodsman

[ woo dz-muh n ]

/ ˈwʊdz mən /

Also woodman. a person accustomed to life in the woods and skilled in the arts of the woods, as hunting or trapping.

a lumberman.

Origin of woodsman

1680–90; wood¹ + -s 3 + man¹

Paul was too wise a woodsman to be careless, and he took Jud directly to the spot which the bear had visited the preceding night.

The Banner Boy Scouts Snowbound |George A. Warren
The sailor to his sea, the woodsman to his woods, and the boulevardier to his beloved avenues!

Burned Bridges |Bertrand W. Sinclair
Often a woodsman will come across a birch that seems to be newly fallen.

The Woodcraft Girls at Camp |Lillian Elizabeth Roy
To buy his woodsman's clothes and a few necessities, he planted gardens, painted houses, and cut wood for his friends.

The Child's Book of American Biography |Mary Stoyell Stimpson

It has to do with a country over which your woodsman has already traveled, or about which he knows something.

Camp and Trail |Stewart Edward White

woodsman

/ (ˈwʊdzmən) /

a person who lives in a wood or who is skilled in woodcraft Also called: woodman