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Backwoodsman

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back·woods  (bkwdz)
pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)
1. Heavily wooded, uncultivated, thinly settled areas.
2. An area that is far from population centers or that is held to be culturally backward.
backwoodsman n.
backwoodsy (-wdz) adj.
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Noun1.Backwoodsmanbackwoodsman - a man who lives on the frontier      
frontiersman, mountain man
pioneer - one the first colonists or settlers in a new territory; "they went west as pioneers with only the possessions they could carry with them"


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You shall not escape me in this way, you morose backwoodsman,' retorts Lady Tippins.
Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles View in context
Much the same is it with the backwoodsman of the West, who with comparative indifference views an unbounded prairie sheeted with driven snow, no shadow of tree or twig to break the fixed trance of whiteness.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
With the hereditary legislator in whom eloquence is a far-descended attainment--a rich echo repeated by powerful voices from Cicero downward--we will match some wondrous backwoodsman, who has caught a wild power of language from the breeze among his native forest boughs.
Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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