DCHP-2
backwoodsman † DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
one who works or lives in the backwoods.
- 1817 The parts of the country they inhabit are rising very fast in wealth and importance, and they are as dextrous in the use of the axe or the gun, as any American backwoodsman.
- 1963 He [the Canada jay] is the companion and familiar of the backwoodsman . . .
- 1817 The parts of the country they inhabit are rising very fast in wealth and importance, and they are as dextrous in the use of the axe or the gun, as any American backwoodsman.