单词 | wood-cutter |
释义 | wood-cuttern. 1. One who cuts wood; one who cuts down or fells trees, or cuts off their branches, for the wood; a wood-hewer. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumberman wood-hewerc1000 wooderc1050 hagger1294 wood-hagger1294 feller1422 woodman1426 faller1614 wood-maker1616 forest-feller1618 axeman1671 holt-felstera1678 stocker1686 bayman1715 logger1734 wood-cutter1758 lumberer1809 lumbermana1817 shantyman1824 chopper1827 splitter1841 bushman1846 mahogany cutter1850 piner1871 bush-faller1882 lumberjack1888 bushwhacker1898 home guard1903 Jack1910 gyppo1912 timber-getter1912 timberjack1916 timber beast1919 1758 Pennsylvania Gaz. 28 Dec. 2/3 (advt.) Good encouragement given near New York, at Sterling Iron-Works, for Refiners of Iron, Colliers, and Woodcutters. Apply to Hauxhurst and Noble. 1775 Lynch in J. Sparks Corr. Amer. Revol. (1853) I. 84 Will it be right to keep your heroes for wood-cutters? 1837–42 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales (1851) II. ix. 129 The axe of the woodcutter echoes..in the forest. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xxiii. 282 The huts of the wood-cutters, where the vessel stopped for fuel. 2. A maker of woodcuts, a wood-engraver. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > relief engraving > [noun] > wood engraving and cutting > wood-cutter or -engraver wood-engraver1816 wood-cutter1821 xylographer1824 xylographist1864 1821 T. 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. 1924 Times Lit. Suppl. 12 June 365/2 Mr. Maudslay interpreting the stone carvings, and the woodcutters interpreting Mr. Maudslay. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021). > as lemmaswood-cutter c. In many combinations, as fustian-cutter, stone-cutter, wood-cutter, etc.: see these words. < as lemmas |
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