woodcut

[ wood-kuht ]

/ ˈwʊdˌkʌt /

Save This Word!

See synonyms for: woodcut / woodcuts on Thesaurus.com

noun

a carved block of wood from which prints are made.

a print or impression from such a block.

QUIZ

CAN YOU ANSWER THESE COMMON GRAMMAR DEBATES?

There are grammar debates that never die; and the ones highlighted in the questions in this quiz are sure to rile everyone up once again. Do you know how to answer the questions that cause some of the greatest grammar debates?

Question 1 of 7

Which sentence is correct?

His boss, whom he admires, is waiting to meet with him about the big project.

His boss, who he admires, is waiting to meet with him about the big project.

TAKE THE QUIZ TO FIND OUT

Origin of woodcut

First recorded in 1655–65; wood¹ + cut

Words nearby woodcut

woodcraft, woodcrafter, woodcraftsman, woodcreeper, wood cudweed, woodcut, woodcutter, Wood Dale, wood duck, wooded, wooden

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

How to use woodcut in a sentence

These woodcuts are far from unprecedented, though, since they employ curving motifs like the ones the artist has long daubed on canvas.
In the galleries: Tracing a generational progression in abstract art|Mark Jenkins|March 5, 2021|Washington Post
With this tool, Death is illustrated in many a 15th-century woodcut mowing down souls as if they were grain.
Ebola Rages in West Africa, Reigniting Humanity’s Oldest Fear: The Plague|Scott Bixby|August 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Daily Pic: Emily Henretta's woodcut captures technology's fragility.
Printed Circuit|Blake Gopnik|October 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Barroso, for example, is working on a woodcut of a tablet computer.
Cuba's 1 Percent Is Not Who You Think It Is|CNBC|July 22, 2013|DAILY BEAST

Many of the lines are wavy and irregular and there are no woodcut initials or ornaments of any kind.
A History of the Cambridge University Press|S. C. Roberts
Then and there I saw my book plate–a coloured woodcut, green and blue, with the pine in black on the key block!
The Idyl of Twin Fires|Walter Prichard Eaton
It has, by way of frontispiece, a woodcut by Hans Sebald Beham, representing a number of sages seated round a table.
Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4)|Various
II.; and its derivation from the solid cusp will be understood, at once, from the woodcut Fig.
The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3)|John Ruskin
He stated that he had paid Thomas Bewick upwards of five hundred pounds for various woodcut blocks.
The History of the Catnach Press|Charles Hindley

British Dictionary definitions for woodcut

woodcut

/ (ˈwʊdˌkʌt) /

noun

a block of wood cut along the grain and with a design, illustration, etc, incised with a knife, from which prints are made

a print from a woodcut

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

woodcut

Origin of woodcut

Words nearby woodcut

Words related to woodcut

How to use woodcut in a sentence

British Dictionary definitions for woodcut