What's the difference between backwoodsman and backwoodsmen?

Backwoodsman

Definition:

(n.) A man living in the forest in or beyond the new settlements, especially on the western frontiers of the older portions of the United States.

Example Sentences:

(1) In particular, it settled on a character named Harlan DeGroat, played by Woody Harrelson, depicted as a sociopathic backwoodsman who takes part in bare knuckle fights up in the mountains.
(2) Nonetheless, it is striking that Chippenham is being fought not by any old Tory backwoodsman out of the pages of Horse & Hound , but by Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones , the self-appointed "black farmer" turned would-be MP.

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Example Sentences:

(1) Ever since Cameron took over in 2005, there have been regular noises off from the backwoodsmen suggesting that the Boden -friendly new leader did not quite speak for his party.
(2) But his appeal was to the Tory backwoodsmen and women who still love the good, old-time religion, along with the conservative media.
(3) Labour and Murphy, despite the efforts of their old backwoodsmen, are beginning to get with the picture.
(4) As Meg Russell of the Constitution Unit has estimated between the departure of the hundreds of Tory backwoodsmen in 1999 and the end of 2006, more than 350 defeats were inflicted on the Labour government .
(5) His backwoodsmen got to him, and he decided it was so important to placate them by doing all he could to save first-past-the-post, that he would not worry too much about souring last summer's romance.
(6) But after his backbenchers and backwoodsmen made plain this was one thing they would not wear, Cameron threw both the Tory machine and the considerable Tory bankbook at the operation.
(7) There are people living in northern Georgia who still feel scarred by the 1972 film Deliverance and its depiction of locals as inbred, rapist backwoodsmen .