backwoodsman

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
backwoodsman
    n 1: a man who lives on the frontier [syn: {frontiersman},
         {backwoodsman}, {mountain man}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Backwoodsman \Back"woods"man\, n.; pl. {Backwoodsmen}.
   A man living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements,
   especially on the western frontiers of the United States in
   former times. --Fisher Ames.
   [1913 Webster +PJC]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "backwoodsman":
      briar-hopper, brush ape, bumpkin, bushman, clam digger, cracker,
      desert rat, forester, frontiersman, hick, hillbilly, hinterlander,
      mountain man, mountaineer, piny, provincial, redneck, ridge runner,
      woodlander, woodman, woodsman, yokel
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