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WOODCUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does woodcut mean?
• WOODCUT (noun)
The noun WOODCUT has 2 senses:
1. a print made from a woodcut
2. engraving consisting of a block of wood with a design cut into it; used to make prints
Familiarity information: WOODCUT used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A print made from a woodcut
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
wood engraving; woodcut
Hypernyms ("woodcut" is a kind of...):
engraving (a print made from an engraving)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Engraving consisting of a block of wood with a design cut into it; used to make prints
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
wood block; wood engraving; woodcut
Hypernyms ("woodcut" is a kind of...):
engraving (a block or plate or other hard surface that has been engraved)
Context examples
Miss Murdstone's heavy eyebrows followed me to the door—I say her eyebrows rather than her eyes, because they were much more important in her face—and she looked so exactly as she used to look, at about that hour of the morning, in our parlour at Blunderstone, that I could have fancied I had been breaking down in my lessons again, and that the dead weight on my mind was that horrible old spelling-book, with oval woodcuts, shaped, to my youthful fancy, like the glasses out of spectacles.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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