One well acquainted with the woods.
1777. It was agreed that I should undertake, with Lieut. Stockwell, who is a good woodsman, to endeavour to get down into the country.—Maryland Journal, Sept. 2.
1843. “If you keep that course, you’ll reach the licks about sun-up!”… “I thought I was a better woodsman.”—B. R. Hall (‘Robert Carlton’), ‘The New Purchase,’ ii. 260.
1867. I knew I was a good woodsman, quick at finding roads, good in keeping directions, etc.—Letter of Gen. Custer, April 20: Mrs. Custer, ‘Tenting on the Plains,’ p. 568 (1888).
