Definition of "woodcutting" [wood•cut•ting]

• The act, activity, or job of cutting wood. (noun)
• The art or process of making woodcuts. (noun)

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• "Around the larger urban centers, particularly Luanda, human settlement and activities such as woodcutting and livestock grazing have had considerable, though mostly localized, impacts on the vegetation and soils."
• "For this reason, work details, such as woodcutting, which took prisoners outside of the camp, were discontinued."
• "He mentions earlier that he had begun "woodcutting," and later (Dec. 15) that he paid the "collier," a tradesman who would have supervised the operation of the kiln."