Primarily used for someone's job involving forestry work, not for casual woodcutters. He became a woodman after years of training in sustainable forestry.
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Outdated Term
'Woodman' has an old-fashioned feel and is less common in modern language than 'logger'. The old tale spoke of a woodman who could talk to trees.
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Cultural Imagery
Brings to mind traditional images of a person living in the forest, working with hand tools. In children's stories, the woodman often rescues creatures from the wild.