A man skilled in hunting, tracking, and surviving in forests, or someone who works with timber and wood.
Compound of 'wood' (Old English 'wudu') and 'man' (Old English 'mann'). Simply means a man of the woods, someone skilled in forest life.
The romantic image of the 'woodsman'—think Davy Crockett or Daniel Boone—is almost entirely a 19th-century invention created by American popular culture and novels, even though actual frontier skills were far more brutal and less noble than the legend suggests.
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