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woodmanship

woodmanship is the alternative form of woodsmanship.

Meaning of woodsmanship

Noun

woodsmanship (uncountable)

  1. The skills of a woodsman.
    • For me, it isn't so much about the actual hunting as much as the woodsmanship and skills that come into play at every stage of a hunt.2007 November 21, Pete Bodo, “The Art of Hunting Deer the Old-Fashioned Way”, in New York Times

Origin of woodmanship

From woodman + -ship.

Questions about woodmanship

What is woodmanship the alternative form of?
Woodmanship is the alternative form of woodsmanship.

Words near woodmanship in the dictionary

  1. Woodmancote
  2. woodmancraft
  3. woodmanlike
  4. Woodmansee
  5. Woodmansees
  6. woodmanship
  7. woodmarch
  8. woodmarches
  9. Woodmason
  10. Woodmass
  11. woodmaster

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Adapted from Wiktionary: woodmanship (page history and authors); woodsmanship (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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