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wood hewer

wood hewer is the alternative form 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...

Forms of wood hewer

pluralwood hewers

Questions about wood hewer

What is wood hewer the alternative form of?
Wood hewer is the alternative form of wood-hewer.

Words near wood hewer in the dictionary

  1. wood grouse
  2. wood grouses
  3. wood gum
  4. wood hedgehog
  5. wood hedgehogs
  6. wood hewer
  7. wood hewers
  8. wood hoopoe
  9. wood hoopoes
  10. wood horsetail
  11. wood horsetails

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