Dictionary entry

Woodcutter

Pronunciation: /ˈwʊdkʌtə/

Pronunciation

/ˈwʊdkʌtə/

Myanmar Meaning

(dated) သစ်ခုတ်သမား။

Definition

woodcutter /'wƱdkʌtǝ(r)/ n ( dated ) သစ္ခုတ္သမား။

Examples

  1. ‘Or maybe he could send a strong message on his attitude to forestry and logging by putting champion woodcutter
  2. David Foster
  3. in the job.’
  4. ‘My first impression of Woolrich came not from hunters
  5. but woodcutters atop pine tree forested mountains when I was a young U.S. Forest Service firefighter.’
  6. ‘This is the place where some woodcutters cut down trees.’
  7. ‘Occasionally they find a few sparks
  8. kept alive in a humble woodcutter's cottage
  9. or in a small fire started by a few of their fellow wanderers.’
  10. ‘There was an inn in the trees at the Bains de l' Allaiz where the woodcutters stopped to drink
  11. and we sat inside warmed by the stove and drank hot red wine with spices and lemon in it.’
  12. ‘The people we met were like the cast from an old faery tale: bearded woodcutters sat chatting in clearings of the forest; cowherds and shepherdesses wandered past with their flocks
  13. shy and silent.’
  14. ‘In addition to the practical considerations favoring the dry wood of dead trees over the wet and heavy wood of living trees
  15. woodcutters in Santa Fe express
  16. and partly practice
  17. an ethic of woodcutting.’
  18. ‘What's keeping the seemingly decent woodcutter from telling what he really knows?’
  19. ‘The film depicts one day in the life of a woodcutter in rural Argentina - precious little happens but it's well worth your patience
  20. especially because Alonso packs the screen with so many stark and beautiful landscapes.’
  21. ‘The title provides aids to let you know if a woodcutter has run out of trees in his designated area but is unable to tell you specifically why there is a mass of settlers sitting around idle.’
  22. ‘He arrived on the Belgravia in 1864
  23. with a 15-year sentence to serve for house-breaking and worked as a woodcutter
  24. sawyer
  25. fencer and general labouring teamster.’
  26. ‘It has little to say about management techniques for the kinds of nonlumber wood that woodcutters require and does not provide a reliable parameter of growth rates for the species that woodcutters prefer for cooking fuel.’
  27. ‘The methods of tree felling were altered and piece work was introduced
  28. doubling the woodcutters ' wages and leading to increased costs.’
  29. ‘Mentionably
  30. professional woodcutters
  31. who are adept at handsawing of timber are hired by the timber smugglers to carry on the business.’
  32. ‘Two cars whizzed by
  33. then the woodcutter's truck passed
  34. laden with dried branches for cooking fires.’
  35. ‘Many woodcutters know Purepecha names for trees
  36. which correspond closely to the Linnean system of names of species
  37. and the burning and construction qualities of different kinds of wood.’
  38. ‘He was followed by other cattlemen
  39. as well as woodcutters eager to exploit the tall stands of cedar.’
  40. ‘Members of the Santa Fe community remember this period as one in which they supplied themselves with kiln fuel from the pine branches and slash left in the forest by the Quiroga woodcutters.’
  41. ‘No longer do the leaders of the smartest city governments view the environment as merely a source of dirt for the homebuilders
  42. or wood for the woodcutters.’
  43. ‘The son of a Perthshire woodcutter
  44. Macintosh himself became a forester.’