backwoodsmen

plural of backwoodsman

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Noun
  • Gelje is one the world’s most renowned mountaineers, with a high-altitude career that includes summiting all 14 of the 8,000-meter peaks.
    Helen Regan, CNN Money, 30 May 2026
  • The film follows both the mountaineers caught in the storm and the rescue teams racing against time to save them.
    Emiliano de Pablos, Variety, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • Karelian bear dogs were originally used by Finnish and Russian peasants as watch dogs and for hunting, according to the American Kennel Club.
    Natalie Krebs, Outdoor Life, 17 June 2026
  • In the early nineteenth century, after Egyptian peasants happened upon ancient fragments, archaeologists began to look in such places for pieces of manuscript, which could vary in size from a few letters to a slice of text.
    Madeleine Schwartz, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2026
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“Backwoodsmen.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/backwoodsmen. Accessed 29 Jun. 2026.

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