woodman

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who cuts down trees or cuts up, splits, and sells wood.
    — As thro’ the shrilling Vale, or Mountain Ground, The Labours of the Woodman’s Axe resound; Blows following Blows are heard re-echoing wide, While crackling Forests fall on ev’ry side. Thus echo’d all the Fields with loud Alarms, So fell the Warriors, and so rung their Arms.
  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.
    — Our walk was far among the ancient trees: There was no road, nor any wood-man’s path, But the thick umbrage, checking the wild growth Of weed and sapling […]
  3. Someone who makes things from wood.
  4. Someone who hunts animals in a wood, hunter, huntsman. obsolete
    — You, Polydote, have proved best woodman and Are master of the feast: Cadwal and I Will play the cook and servant; ’tis our match: The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.
  5. Someone who lives in the woods and is considered to be uncivilized or barbaric, a savage. obsolete
    — […] yonder in that faithfull wildernesse Huge monsters haunt, and many dangers dwell; Dragons, and Minotaures, and feendes of hell, And many wilde woodmen, which robbe & rend All traveilers […]

词形变化

woodmen plural

词汇关系

相关词
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词源

From Middle English woodeman, wodeman, from Old English wudemann, wudumann (“woodman”), equivalent to wood + -man.
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