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Woodlore vs Lore - What's the difference?

woodlore | lore | Derived terms |

Woodlore is a derived term of lore.


As nouns the difference between woodlore and lore

is that woodlore is skills relating to living in a woodland environment; woodcraft while lore is all the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience or lore can be (anatomy) the region between the eyes and nostrils of birds, reptiles, and amphibians.

As a verb lore is

(obsolete) (lose).

woodlore

English

Noun

(-)
  • 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, […]

    lore

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) lore, from (etyl) '', German ''Lehre . See also (l).

    Noun

  • all the facts and traditions about a particular subject that have been accumulated over time through education or experience.
    • the lore of the Ancient Egyptians
  • * Milton
    • His fair offspring, nursed in princely lore .
  • The backstory created around a fictional universe.
  • (obsolete) workmanship
    • (Spenser)
    Derived terms
    * birdlore * booklore * catlore * doglore * faxlore * fishlore * folklore * photocopylore * woodlore * wortlore * xeroxlore

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) The region between the eyes and nostrils of birds, reptiles, and amphibians.
  • (anatomy) The anterior portion of the cheeks of insects.
    • Derived terms
    * lored

    Etymology 3

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) (lose)
  • * Spenser
    • Neither of them she found where she them lore .

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