woodcutter
noun
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Definition of woodcutter
: one that cuts wood
Examples of woodcutter in a Sentence
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Know Your Chain Chainsaw chain travels around the bar at about 70 miles an hour, and professional woodcutters do everything possible to maintain a high cutting speed. — Roy Berendson, Popular Mechanics, "The Ultimate Guide To Cutting and Splitting Firewood," 28 Sep. 2018 Farmers with oxen gather fruit and tend vineyards in one panel, and Dionysus and other gods help woodcutters chop down trees in another. — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, "Ancient âcomic stripâ depicts the founding of a Roman city," 10 Oct. 2018 His family had been woodcutters, and, for him, becoming a horticulturist was a kind of karmic reparation. — Brooke Jarvis, The New Yorker, "The Obsessive Search for the Tasmanian Tiger," 16 Jan. 2012 Add a stable, a town hall, a woodcutter, et cetera. — Hayden Dingman, PCWorld, "This week in games: Dead Island 2 revival, Kingdom Come: Deliverance DLC and Shenmue on PC," 6 July 2018 Her husband, a woodcutter, can hardly find any work. — Washington Post, "For Yemeni mothers, skipped meals and gnawing stomachs," 3 May 2018 Her husband, a woodcutter, could make the equivalent of $4 a day. — Washington Post, "In Yemen, a motherâs quest to save her baby from starvation," 5 May 2018 Oxmoor morphed into the dominant village in Shades Valley, employing 60 foundry men and hundreds of woodcutters and laborers, including, unfortunately, slaves. — Birmingham Magazine, AL.com, "A History of Homewood," 19 Feb. 2018 When their father, a woodcutter, abandons them in a forest, the first sets out in one direction to discover her purpose; the second chooses a different path to find adventure; and the third stays and makes a home. — Laurel Graeber, New York Times, "7 Things to Do With Your Kids in NYC This Weekend," 15 Feb. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'woodcutter.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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woodcutter
noun
English Language Learners Definition of woodcutter
old-fashioned
: a person whose job is to chop down trees and cut wood
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woodcutter
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wood·cut·ter
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Kids Definition of woodcutter
: a person who cuts wood especially as an occupation