woodman

noun5

1. •
   Someone who cuts down trees or cuts up, splits, and sells wood.

   • The world is full of woodmen who expel Love’s gentle dryads from the haunts of life, And vex the nightingales in every dell. — 1862
2. •
   Someone who lives in the wood and manages it; (by extension) someone who spends time in the woods and has a strong familiarity with that environment.

   • Our walk was far among the ancient trees: There was no road, nor any wood-man’s path, But the thick umbrage, checking the wild growth Of weed and sapling […] — 1800
3. •
   Someone who makes things from wood.
4. •
   (no longer used) Someone who hunts animals in a wood, hunter, huntsman.

   • You, Polydote, have proved best woodman and Are master of the feast: Cadwal and I Will play the cook and servant; ’tis our match: The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to. — 1611
5. •
   (no longer used) Someone who lives in the woods and is considered to be uncivilized or barbaric, a savage.

   • […] yonder in that faithfull wildernesse Huge monsters haunt, and many dangers dwell; Dragons, and Minotaures, and feendes of hell, And many wilde woodmen, which robbe & rend All traveilers […] — 1590