woodlore
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woodlore (uncountable)
- Skills relating to living in a woodland environment; woodcraft.
- 1972, Field and Stream, volume 77, number 3, page 28:
- The man who understands woodlore identifies with nature because he participates instead of intrudes, and this is the reason why a true hunter has a better appreciation of wildlife and conservation […]
- 2005, Andrew Lindsay, The Washing Machine Man's Travels - Page 53:
- A bit of shaping and fine tuning and you have what you need to make fire. A bow- drill. Peeling the loose bark from a dead vine as Ray Meers had shown me on one of his woodlore courses the previous year, […]