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[syn: frontiersman, backwoodsman, mountain man]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Backwoodsman \Back"woods"man\, n.; pl. Backwoodsmen.
A man living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements,
especially on the western frontiers of the United States in
former times. --Fisher Ames.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
backwoodsman
n 1: a man who lives on the frontier [syn: frontiersman,
backwoodsman, mountain man]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "backwoodsman":
briar-hopper, brush ape, bumpkin, bushman, clam digger, cracker,
desert rat, forester, frontiersman, hick, hillbilly, hinterlander,
mountain man, mountaineer, piny, provincial, redneck, ridge runner,
woodlander, woodman, woodsman, yokel