Obs. [OE. wudere, f. wudian to cut wood; later directly f. WOOD v.2 or sb.1 + -ER1. Cf. WOODYER.] = WOODMAN1 2.
c. 1050. Gloss., in Wr.-Wülcker, 371/5. Calones, wuderas.
1275. Rot. Hundr., II. 210. Andreas le Wodere.
1307. Cal. Close Rolls 35 Edw. I., 484. Matthew le Woder.
1767. Wallis’s Voy., in Hawkesworth, Voy. (1773), I. 468. I ordered that no man, except the wooders and waterers, with their guard, should be permitted to go on shore.
1773. Gentl. Mag., XLIII. 419/2. They also sent wooders to fell timber for Port Egmont.
