Meaning of wood-hewer | Babel Free

Definitions

One who earns a living by splitting wood.

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Examples

“But the present⟳ task was hateful to him; for any big-armed yokel, or common wood-hewer, might have⟳ done as much as he could do, and perhaps more, at it, and could have⟳ taken the same wage over it.”

“One of the officers thought it unavoidable that troops would abandon the “uniformity of the clean⟳, smart, soldier, and substitute, in his stead, the [look⟳ of the] slovenly, undisciplined wood-hewer, sand-digger, and hod-carrier.””

“"I must hasten," he said. “Old Peter Cobb, a wood-hewer, is dying.””

“My stomach was hooked by an admixture of bewilderment and elation as I jogged, walked, ran, and sometimes ran, walked and jogged till I reached Biodun's house, my senior at school— breathing heavily like⟳ a wood-hewer.”

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