woodcutting
noun
wood·cut·ting
ˈwu̇d-ˌkə-tiŋ 
1
: the action or occupation of cutting wood or timber
2
: the producing of woodcuts
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As with any risk-reward scenario, the payoffs of winter woodcutting are also clear.
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Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2023
LaToya Hobbs, 37, who seamlessly melds woodcutting, painting, and collage to create portraits of Black motherhood, won the Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize accompanied by a $25,000 award on July 20.
—Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 18 Sep. 2020
Forest officials in the western part of that state have suspended woodcutting permits, including ceremonial wood gathering by Native American tribes.
—Washington Post, 27 May 2018
Blackbeard: A woodcutting of the most notorious and infamous pirate of the golden age of piracy, Edward Teach, more commonly referred to as Blackbeard.
—Chris Scott, CNN, 26 May 2017
Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 18 Jan. 2023
LaToya Hobbs, 37, who seamlessly melds woodcutting, painting, and collage to create portraits of Black motherhood, won the Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize accompanied by a $25,000 award on July 20.
—Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 18 Sep. 2020
Forest officials in the western part of that state have suspended woodcutting permits, including ceremonial wood gathering by Native American tribes.
—Washington Post, 27 May 2018
Blackbeard: A woodcutting of the most notorious and infamous pirate of the golden age of piracy, Edward Teach, more commonly referred to as Blackbeard.
—Chris Scott, CNN, 26 May 2017
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“Woodcutting.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/woodcutting. Accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
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