Word Meanings - WOODSMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A woodman; especially, one who lives in the forest.

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• FORESTICK
  Front stick of a hearth fire.
• FOREST
  A large extent or precinct of country, generally waste and woody, belonging to the sovereign, set apart for the keeping of game for his use, not inclosed, but distinguished by certain limits, and protected by certain laws, courts, and officers of
• WOODMAN
  1. A forest officer appointed to take care of the king's woods; a forester. 2. A sportsman; a hunter. is a better woodman than thou takest him for. Shak. 3. One who cuts down trees; a woodcutter. Woodman, spare that tree. G. P. Morris. 4. One who
• FORESTAY
  A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to the bowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship.
• FORESTAGE
  A duty or tribute payable to the king's foresters. A service paid by foresters to the king.
• FORESTER
  A lepidopterous insect belonging to Alypia and allied genera; as, the eight-spotted forester , which in the larval state is injurious to the grapevine. (more info) 1. One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed
• FORESTALL
  To obstruct or stop up, as a way; to stop the passage of on highway; to intercept on the road, as goods on the way to market. To forestall the market, to buy or contract for merchandise or provision on its way to market, with the intention
• ESPECIALLY
  In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in an uncommon degree.
• FORESTRY
  The art of forming or of cultivating forests; the management of growing timber.
• FORESTAFF
  An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes of heavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross- staff. Brande & C.
• FORESTALLER
  One who forestalls; esp., one who forestalls the market. Locke.
• LIVES
  Alive; living; with life. " Any lives creature." Chaucer.
• FORESTAL
  Of or pertaining to forests; as, forestal rights.
• COAFFOREST
  To convert into, or add to, a forest. Howell.
• AFFOREST
  To convert into a forest; as, to afforest a tract of country.
• REAFFORESTATION
  The act or process of converting again into a forest.
• REFORESTIZE
  To convert again into a forest; to plant again with trees.
• REFOREST
  To replant with trees; to reafforest; to reforestize.
• DEFOREST
  To clear of forests; to dis U. S. Agric. Reports.
• REFORESTIZATION
  The act or process of reforestizing.
• REAFFOREST
  To convert again into the forest, as a region of country.
• DISFORESTATION
  The act of clearing land of forests. Daniel.
• DISFOREST
  1. To disafforest. Fuller. 2. To clear or deprive of forests or trees.