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wood block

British  

noun

  1. a small rectangular flat block of wood that is laid with others as a floor surface

  2. music another word for Chinese block

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Another webpage described the Los Gatos-based Fountaine as an innovation prodigy, having created a hot dog cooker made of two nails, a wood block and a stripped electric cord at the age of 6.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2024

“Sometimes we tape it to a wood block if we need to get a little more force into the furniture,” he said.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 3, 2024

Unlike iron, the wood block does not sink in the water but instead floats on the water’s surface.

From Textbooks • Feb. 14, 2019

Most surprising of all are hundreds of original Japanese wood block prints that were in Monet’s private collection.

From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2016

For example, a wood block corresponds to a hop, a xylophone glissando is a leap, a shaker means to shake.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin