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wood-hewers

wood-hewers is the plural of wood-hewer.

Meaning of wood-hewer

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...

Questions about wood-hewers

What is wood-hewers the plural of?
Wood-hewers is the plural of wood-hewer.

Words near wood-hewers in the dictionary

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

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