axemanaxmann.
/ˈaksmən/, /ˈaksman/, U.S. /ˈæksˌmæn/ 1. A man who uses an axe in his work; a woodman.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumberman
wood-hewerc1000
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hagger1294
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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
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timber-getter1912
timberjack1916
timber beast1919
society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > axe
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axeman1807
gisarmier1834
poleaxer1885
1671 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1883) XX. 145 The time of meeting for ax men is to be by the sun half an hour high.
1777 Maryland Jrnl. 18 Mar. Five hundred good carpenters, with ax-men and sawyers in proportion.
1785 A. Ellicott in Life & Lett. (1908) 45 From a Hill where our Axe-men are now Encamped we have a most beautiful Prospect.
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad vi. 226 Scalpers and ax-men rush from Erie's shore.
1878 J. Buller Forty Years N.Z. i. ii. 28 They worked as axe-men, sawyers, etc.
2. A warrior armed with a battle-axe.
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1828 P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) II. 218 Every axe-man who had neither spear nor bow.
3. A guitarist, esp. one who plays in a band or group. Cf. axe n.1 5 slang (chiefly Jazz and Rock Music).
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society > leisure > the arts > music > musician > instrumentalist > string player > [noun] > guitar-player
guitarist1771
guitar-player1834
rhythm guitarist1934
guitar-picker1951
fingerpicker1959
axeman1976
1976 Evening Post (Nottingham) 15 Dec. 2/4 Guitarist Albert Lee..slotted in remarkably, swapping subtle licks and fresh ideas with Joan's regular axeman Jerry Donahue.
1977 Rolling Stone 24 Mar. 69/2 Though Beck himself adds some screaming guitar to one selection and Devadip Carlos Santana is effectively lyrical on another, axeman Ray Gomez powers four of the cuts.
1985 Washington Post 15 May b7/2 He learned guitar from Fats Domino's axeman, Walter (Papoose) Nelson.
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