"wood-hewer" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From wood + hewer.",
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          "ref": "1925, Sir Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Springhaven: A Tale of the Great War",
          "text": "But the present task was hateful to him; for any big-armed yokel, or common wood-hewer, might have done as much as he could do, and perhaps more, at it, and could have taken the same wage over it.",
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          "ref": "2011, David A. Clary, George Washington's First War: His Early Military Adventures, page 130",
          "text": "One of the officers thought it unavoidable that troops would abandon the “uniformity of the clean, smart, soldier, and substitute, in his stead, the [look of the] slovenly, undisciplined wood-hewer, sand-digger, and hod-carrier.”",
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        {
          "ref": "2014, Anya Seton, Green Darkness",
          "text": "\"I must hasten,\" he said. “Old Peter Cobb, a wood-hewer, is dying.”",
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          "ref": "2016, Yemi D. Prince, The Birth of a Child in a Fishing Boat, page 63",
          "text": "My stomach was hooked by an admixture of bewilderment and elation as I jogged, walked, ran, and sometimes ran, walked and jogged till I reached Biodun's house, my senior at school— breathing heavily like a wood-hewer.",
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        "One who earns a living by splitting wood."
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        {
          "word": "woodhewer"
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          "word": "wood hewer"
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          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "one who earns a living by splitting wood",
          "word": "halonhakkaaja"
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  "word": "wood-hewer"
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          "ref": "1925, Sir Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Springhaven: A Tale of the Great War",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "text": "\"I must hasten,\" he said. “Old Peter Cobb, a wood-hewer, is dying.”",
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        },
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          "ref": "2016, Yemi D. Prince, The Birth of a Child in a Fishing Boat, page 63",
          "text": "My stomach was hooked by an admixture of bewilderment and elation as I jogged, walked, ran, and sometimes ran, walked and jogged till I reached Biodun's house, my senior at school— breathing heavily like a wood-hewer.",
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    {
      "word": "woodhewer"
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      "sense": "one who earns a living by splitting wood",
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  "word": "wood-hewer"
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