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单词 woodman
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woodmann.1

Brit. /ˈwʊdmən/, U.S. /ˈwʊdmən/
Forms: Plural woodmen.
Forms and etymology: see wood n.1 and man n.1 (Cf. woodsman n.)The meaning in the following is uncertain:—
972 in Birch Cartul. Sax. III. 603 Fram hwitingho to wudemannes tune.
c1273 in W. Illingworth Rotuli Hundredorum (1818) II. 19 Johanni Wodeman.
1.
a. One who hunts game in a wood or forest; a huntsman. Obsolete or archaic.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] > hunter in forest
driver1391
woodmana1425
a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) xxxiii As of þe manere howe he shulde be vndo y passe ouere lightly, for þer is no wodemann nor good hunter in Inglonde, but þei cann do it wele ynowgh.
1555 H. Braham Inst. Gentleman sig. Hv Ther is a saying emonge hunters that he cannot be a gentleman which loueth not hawkyng and hunting, whiche I haue heard olde woodmen wel allowe.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) v. v. 26 Am I a Woodman, ha? Speake I like Herne the Hunter? View more context for this quotation
1616 J. Boys Expos. Proper Psalms xlvii. 9, in Wks. (1629) 935 Woodmen say that Deere are most circumspect in fat pasture.
1676 T. Shadwell Virtuoso iii. 38 I have taken more pains to single you out, than ever Wood-man did for a Deer.
1805 W. Scott Lay of Last Minstrel vi. vii. 168 Conrad..Was by a woodman's lyme-dog found.
1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies xi. 85 He looked down with contempt upon the rangers, as..inexperienced woodmen, but little skilled in hunting lore.]
b. figurative or allusively.
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1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. 54 He was not..so ill a woodman to giue ouer the chace at the first default.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. iii. 157 He's a better woodman then thou tak'st him for. View more context for this quotation
a1625 J. Fletcher Chances i. viii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Aaa2v/2 I see ye are a wood-man, and can chuse Your Deere.
1673 J. Dryden Marriage a-la-Mode ii. i. 18 Has the old Cupid, your Father, chosen well for you? is he a good Woodman?
2. One who looks after the trees in a wood or forest; one who fells or lops trees for timber or fuel; also, one who provides or purveys wood.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in timber
wooderc1050
woodmonger1261
woodman1426
timberman1429
wood-maker1616
billet-dealera1625
mahogany trade1850
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
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 17745 Her ys a woode off lytel prys, Wych a woodeman selleth me.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 289/2 Wodman that lyveth by fellyng wode, bocquillon.
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 519/2 Dendrophori,..woodemen or such as carrie wood about streetes to be sold.
1637 J. Milton Comus 17 Either some one like us night founder'd here, Or else some neighbour wood man.
1726 J. Laurence New Syst. Agric. 229 Of the Aspen Tree our Woodmen make Hoops, Firewood, and Coals.
1800 T. Campbell Beech Tree's Petition 2 Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree.
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. vii. 83 Bonsall and Petersen are now woodmen, preparing our daily fuel.
1875 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. (ed. 2) vii. 250 Each half company providing 2 woodmen, 2 watermen.
1903 M. S. Rawson Apprentice 141 The oldest woodmen say that it takes a hundred years to grow a perfect oak for an English ship.
3. A forester having charge of the king's woods.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > forester > officer in charge of forest
woodwardc1050
forester1297
ranger1327
walker1482
keeper1488
wood-master15..
grazierc1503
wood-reeve1579
woodman1594
Warden of the Forest1598
rider1647
conservator1733
woodwarden1748
wood-forester1865
1594 R. Crompton L'Authoritie & Iurisdict. des Courts f. 146v Auant que sera perfect Forest, le Roy couient appointer certaine officers, come vn keeper, Forester, Woodmen, Regarders, Agistors.
a1610 J. Manwood Treat. Lawes Forest (1615) xxi. 193 The foresters & woodmen did take no good regard to the forests.
4. An inhabitant of the woods; (a figure representing) a wild man; = woodwose n. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > type of show or spectacle > [noun] > parade or procession > pageant > participant > specific character
woodman1442
woodwosea1464
woodist1613
society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [noun] > uncivilized person
wild mana1400
woodwose?a1400
savaginec1450
woodward1488
savagea1544
woodman1601
barbarian1604
woodist1613
wilding1621
brutigenist1631
catamountaina1640
Caliban1678
semi-barbarian1692
Hottentot1710
semi-savage1807
pagan1879
society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of human or divine beings > [noun] > savage
woodwose1355
woodward1488
savage mana1656
savage1673
woodman1780
1442 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 9 The fleschowares sal fynd [for a play], twa or four wodmen.
1566 in J. Nicholl Comp. Ironmongers (1866) 85 They shall fynde us two wood~men, wt clubbes, squibbes and powder.
1601 in F. Moryson Itinerary (1617) ii. 106 To march..into Colrane..to have brought into subjection all the woodmen.
1660 J. Tatham Royal Oake 10 Several persons in the habit of Wood-men and Wood-Nymphs.
1780 J. Edmondson Compl. Body Heraldry II. (Gloss.) Woodman, a name given by several Writers to the wild man, or savage.
5. A workman who makes something of wood, esp. the woodwork of a carriage.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > woodworker > [noun]
wrighta1200
woodworkman1659
woodwright1867
woodworker1875
woodman1879
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) IV. 175/1 When the body is finished from the hands of the woodman, it passes into the hands of the currier.
1908 Advt. Wanted Coach Builders and Wheelwrights.—Good woodman.

Derivatives

ˈwoodmancraft n. (also ˈwoodmanscraft) the business or skill of a woodman.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > woodcraft
woodcraftc1386
woodmancrafta1425
woodmanship1575
a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) xxxiii If þe lorde will haue þe deere vndone, he þat he biddeth..shulde vndo hym þe moste wodemanly and clenly þat he cann. And wondreth ye nought, þough y say wodmanly, for it is a poynte of wodemancrafte.
1881 Sat. Rev. 23 July 122/1 Colonel Fraser's political sagacity hardly seems on a par with his woodmanscraft.
ˈwoodmanlike adv.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [adjective] > forester
woodmanlike1479
1479 in Catal. Anc. Deeds (1915) VI. 168 The said beches to be drawen on the saide grounde wodmanlyke after the custume of wodsale.
† †ˈwoodmanly adv. Obsolete in the manner of or befitting a woodman.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [adverb] > forester
woodmanlya1650
a1650 in J. W. Hales & F. J. Furnivall Bp. Percy's Folio MS I. 106 The kyng in hys hand toke a bowe, And wodmanly he stowpy'd lowe.
ˈwoodmanship n. = woodmancraft n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > woodcraft
woodcraftc1386
woodmancrafta1425
woodmanship1575
1575 G. Gascoigne Hearbes 156 Gascoignes woodmanship written to the L. Grey of Wilton.
1627 J. Taylor Armado Ep. Ded. You know what belongs to the Wood-manship, the Wardship, and Stewardship.
1831 W. Scott Count Robert v, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. III. 100 It were bad woodmanship to raise the hollo upon the game, ere it had been driven within compass of the nets.
1911 A. C. Benson Ruskin v. 180 He was fond of woodmanship. His..hedging-gloves and his chopper were very characteristic signs of his presence.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

woodmann.2

Forms: see wood adj., n.2, and adv. and man n.1
Etymology: < wood adj. + man n.1
Obsolete.
A madman, lunatic, maniac.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mentally ill person > [noun] > mad person
woodman1297
madmanc1330
lunatic1377
franticc1380
madwomana1438
March harec1500
Bedlam beggar1525
fanaticc1525
bedlama1529
frenetic1528
Jack o' Bedlam1528
Tom o' Bedlam1569
crack-brain1570
madbrain1570
Tom1575
madcap1589
gelt1596
madhead1600
brainsick1605
madpash1611
non compos1628
madling1638
bedlam-man1658
bedlamerc1675
fan1682
bedlamite1691
cracka1701
lymphatic1708
shatter-brain1719
mad1729
maniaca1763
non compos mentis1765
shatter-pate1775
shatter-wit1775
insane1786
craze1831
dement1857
crazy1867
crackpot1883
loony1884
bug1885
psychopath1885
dingbat1887
psychopathic1890
ding-a-ling1899
meshuggener1900
détraqué1902
maddiea1903
nut1908
mental1913
ding1929
lakes1934
wack1938
fruitcake1942
nutty1942
barm-pot1951
nutcake1953
nutter1958
nutcase1959
nut job1959
meshuga1962
nutsy1964
headcase1965
nutball1968
headbanger1973
nutso1975
wacko1977
nut bar1978
mentalist1990
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 3338 Hii verde as wodemen; hii wende hii were ynome.
c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 1351 He trampelid fast with his feet, & al to-tare his ere And his visage both, ryȝt as a woodman.
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur x. xii. 432 Cryenge and rateynge hym as a wood man.
c1480 (a1400) SS. Simon & Jude 412 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 220 Wodmen..In quhame þe feyndis þan can dwel.
c1480 (a1400) St. Christopher 285 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 348 Þe Iugis,..fore a wodman demyt hym.
1512 J. Parfre Candlemas-Day in Marriott Miracle-Plays (1838) 200 Like as a wodman he gan to fray.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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