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woodcutting

woodcutting

2.8
Cutting down trees to get wood for fuel or building
  • noun
  • /ˈwʊdˌkʌtɪŋ/
translation icon : corte de madera
  • woodcutting and grazing
  • woodcutting or hunting

Examples

  • Woodcutting is another major disturbance that has shaped the development of Mediterranean vegetation.

    Academic text (1998)

  • Hael did not feel the affinity for this place that he had felt for the mountain forest where he had been with the woodcutting party.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • Erbie more often strayed from home on woodcutting trips.

    Fiction book (1991)

  • He spent the weekend woodcutting in the forest to prepare firewood for the winter.

  • The villagers often engage in woodcutting to gather timber for building their homes.

  • After finishing his woodcutting, he loaded the logs onto his truck for transport.

Synonyms

logging
vswoodcutting
67 3.1

Cutting down trees to get wood for building or sale

is the skill of cutting trees or chopping wood for fuel or building
lumbering
vswoodcutting
  • US
2 4.9

The business of cutting and selling wood

is more about the hands on skill of chopping or cutting wood
timbering
vswoodcutting
  • Specialized
1 4.8

Cutting and preparing trees to make wood for building

focuses more on practical skill of cutting wood for fuel or construction
sawing wood
vswoodcutting
2.2

An action when someone cuts wood by moving a blade back and forth

is a broader skill of cutting or chopping trees for fuel or building

How Vigorous

clear-cutting
  • Specialized
2 5.2
fell
7.0
to chop
193 1.0
woodcutting
2.8
to whittle
13 6.2

Surface Forms

woodcutting singular
woodcuttings plural

Morphology

woodcutting = wood + cut (transparent) = wood + cut + ing

This is a regular gerund/noun formation built transparently from 'wood' + 'cut' + -ing, meaning the activity of cutting wood.

Etymology

Woodcutting is simply the parts wood and cutting: wood means 'trees' or 'timber' and cutting means 'chopping', so woodcutting is the activity of cutting down trees or chopping wood for fuel or building.