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woodchopping

1 3.2

An activity of cutting wood into pieces with an axe

noun
/ˈwʊdˌtʃɑːpɪŋ/

: corte de madera

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Examples

He spent the afternoon woodchopping to prepare firewood for winter.
The annual festival features a woodchopping competition that attracts skilled participants from across the region.
After hours of woodchopping, they had enough logs to last through the cold season.
He enjoys woodchopping in his free time.
He practiced woodchopping every Saturday to improve his skills with the axe.
The local competition featured woodchopping as one of the main events.
After a long day of woodchopping, they gathered around the fire to relax.

Synonyms

woodcutting

vswoodchopping

2.8

Cutting down trees to get wood for fuel or building

is performed as a competitive or sporting activity rather than for practical purposes

Surface Forms

woodchopping singular

woodchoppings plural

Morphology

woodchopping = woodchop (transparent) = wood + chop + ing

Formed by the compound 'wood' + 'chop' with the gerundive suffix '-ing'; the action meaning is directly inferable.

Etymology

The word woodchopping is made of wood, which means 'trees or logs', and chop, which means 'to cut with a strong hit'. So a woodchopping is literally the act or sport of cutting wood into pieces, often to make fuel for a fire.