Definition of "backwoodsmen" [backwoodsmen]

• Plural form of backwoodsman. (noun)

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• "Similarly the Indians round the upper Ohio and thence southward often called the backwoodsmen "Virginians.""
• "Moreover, the backwoodsmen were a hard people; a people who still lived in an iron age."
• "The backwoodsmen are a generous and placable race."