Definition of "woodman" in Anglais

noun

1. Someone who cuts down trees or cuts up, splits, and sells wood.

   • 1862, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Woodman and the Nightingale” (written in 1818 and published posthumously) in Richard Garnett (editor), Relics of Shelley, London: Edward Moxon, p. 79, The world is full of woodmen who expel Love’s gentle dryads from the haunts of life, And vex the nightingales in every dell.

2. Someone who lives in the wood and manages it; (by extension) someone who spends time in the woods and has a strong familiarity with that environment.

3. Someone who makes things from wood.

4. (obsolete) Someone who hunts animals in a wood, hunter, huntsman.

   • c. 1611, John Fletcher, The Woman’s Prize, Act IV, Scene 3, in Comedies and Tragedies Written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Gentlemen, London: H. Robinson & H. Moseley, 1647, p. 116, How daintily, and cunningly you drive me Up like a Deere to’th toyle, yet I may leape it, And what’s the woodman then?
   • 1636, Robert Sanderson, Ad Aulam. The Fourth Sermon, Beuvoyr, July, 1636 in XXXVI Sermons, London, 8th edition, 1689, p. 413, And to get the Mastery over they self in great matters, it will behove thee to exercise this Discipline first in lesser things: as he that would be a skilful Wood-man, will exercise himself thereunto first by shooting sometimes at a dead mark.

5. (obsolete) Someone who lives in the woods and is considered to be uncivilized or barbaric, a savage.