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# woodcutter

«woodcutter» in Mova's school dictionary: **cutting down trees or chopping wood** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a woodcutter, woodcutters)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A person whose job is cutting down trees or chopping wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woodcutter/#m1)

2) (art) A person who makes woodcuts, pictures printed from carved wood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woodcutter/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Very common in fairy tales («Hansel and Gretel», «Little Red Riding Hood»), where the woodcutter is a poor or brave forest worker. In real life the job is usually called forester or logger today.

### examples

- The woodcutter lived with his family at the edge of the forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woodcutter/#x1)
- In some versions, a woodcutter saves Little Red Riding Hood. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woodcutter/#x2)
- The woodcutter carried his axe over his shoulder. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woodcutter/#x3)
- The woodcutter cut 4 logs an hour, so in 3 hours he cut 12. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woodcutter/#x4)
- Hansel and Gretel's father was a poor woodcutter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woodcutter/#x5)
- Modern woodcutters use chainsaws and safety helmets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woodcutter/#x6)
- A LION demanded the daughter of a woodcutter in marriage. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woodcutter/#x7)

### note

Countable; one word. Mostly in stories; modern words: logger (US), forester, lumberjack.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «woodcutter» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/W/woodcutter/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.