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wood-cutter|ˈwʊdˌkʌtə(r)|
1. One who cuts wood; one who cuts down or fells trees, or cuts off their branches, for the wood; a wood-hewer.
1774Pennsylv. Gaz. 14 Dec. Suppl. 2/3 Cross-cut, pit, hand, woodcutters, tennon, and a variety of other saws. 1775Lynch in Sparks Corr. Amer. Rev. (1853) I. 84 Will it be right to keep your heroes for wood-cutters? 1837–42Hawthorne Twice-told T. (1851) II. ix. 129 The axe of the woodcutter echoes..in the forest. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xxiii, The huts of the wood-cutters, where the vessel stopped for fuel.
2. A maker of woodcuts, a wood-engraver.
1821T. G. Wainewright Ess. & Crit. (1880) 194 Our historical wood-cutters have thought it much to follow..those lines ready-pencilled by the inventor on the blocks. 1924Times Lit. Suppl. 12 June 365/2 Mr. Maudslay interpreting the stone carvings, and the woodcutters interpreting Mr. Maudslay. |