woodchopper

Example Sentences

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Papa and I were about halfway to the blacksmith shop when Daisy poked her head out the back door and yelled, “Jay Berry, I’ve been thinking—if you go to live naked in a hollow tree way back in the mountains, you’d better be careful. A woodchopper might come along and chop that tree down with you in it.”

From Literature

I am backing them to bounce back with 'The Woodchopper', Chris Wood, bagging the winner on his return to his former club.

From BBC

The halftime show was called “Happiness Is” and starred Andy Williams and Woody Herman, backed up by the University of Michigan band, which played “Put on a Happy Face,” “Woodchopper’s Ball,” and “This Land Is Your Land.”

From Los Angeles Times

And there he was, the woodchopper, swinging up and swinging down again.

From Literature

Wood was nicknamed “The Woodchopper” because he first worked in a sawmill and, legend has it, he initially adorned “The Woodchopper” on cars he entered at Bowman Gray Stadium.

From Seattle Times