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/fˈɔrəstər/ Listen

noun

Forester n.

One who has charge of the growing timber on an estate; an officer appointed to watch a forest and preserve the game.

An inhabitant of a forest.

A forest tree. (R.)

(Zool.) A lepidopterous insect belonging to Alypia and allied genera; as, the eight-spotted forester (A. octomaculata), which in the larval state is injurious to the grapevine.

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Etymology of 'Forester'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Forester" Quotes from Famous Books

... for pasturage and boscage. Canute's forest-laws were meant as a liberal concession to public feeling on the subject; they are more definite than Edgar's, but terribly stringent; if a freeman killed one of the king's deer, or struck his forester, he lost his freedom and became a penal serf (white theowe)—that is, he ranked with felons. Nevertheless, Canute allowed bishops, abbots, and thegns to hunt in his woods—a privilege restored by Henry III. The nobility, after the Conquest, being excluded from ...

— Harold, Complete - The Last Of The Saxon Kings • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... whether I began with forestry, with farming, or with geometry and land-surveying. My father tried to find a position for me; but the farmers asked too high a premium. Just at this time he became acquainted with a forester who had also a considerable reputation as land-surveyor and valuer. They soon came to terms, and I was apprenticed to this man for two years, to learn forestry, valuing, geometry, and land-surveying. I was fifteen years and a half ...

— Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel • Friedrich Froebel

... personal characteristics. He is the only writer who has succeeded in giving a striking portraiture of life in the cabin, in the "shanty" (chantier), and on the river, where the French habitant, forester, and canoe-man can be seen ...

— Canada under British Rule 1760-1900 • John G. Bourinot

... I want to correct you, for one reason: It is truly a horticultural variety or clone that has just as much standing or identity as the botanist's or forester's "variety." ...

— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting • Various

... he was a forester, a woodsman famed even among woodsmen. Most of his fellows had been tamed by civilization; they had lived beneath roofs instead of the canopy of heaven, and they had almost forgotten about the moon. Ben, on the other hand, was a recurrence of ...

— The Sky Line of Spruce • Edison Marshall

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