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wood-hewer

wood-hewer noun: one who earns a living by splitting wood.

Noun

wood-hewer (plural wood-hewers)

  1. One who earns a living by splitting wood.
    • But the present task was hateful to him; for any big-armed yokel, or common wood-hewer, might have done as much as he could do, and perhaps more, at it, and could have taken the same wage over it.1886 April – 1887 April, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, “Long-pipe Times”, in Springhaven. A Tale of the Great War. […], volume I, London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, […], published 1887...
    • One of the officers thought it unavoidable that troops would abandon the “uniformity of the clean, smart, soldier, and substitute, in his stead, the [look of the] slovenly, undisciplined wood-hewer, sand-digger, and hod-carrier.”2011, David A. Clary, George Washington's First War: His Early Military Adventures, →ISBN, page 130

Forms of wood-hewer

pluralwood-hewers
alternative formwoodhewer
alternative formwood hewer

Origin of wood-hewer

From wood + hewer.

Questions about wood-hewer

What does wood-hewer mean?
Wood-hewer means one who earns a living by splitting wood.
What part of speech is wood-hewer?
Wood-hewer is a noun.
What is the plural of wood-hewer?
The plural of wood-hewer is wood-hewers.

Words near wood-hewer in the dictionary

  1. wood-copper
  2. wood-ear
  3. wood-elf
  4. wood-elves
  5. wood-fired
  6. wood-hewer
  7. wood-hewers
  8. wood-locked
  9. wood-nymph
  10. wood-nymphs
  11. wood-oil

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