woodcut

[ wood-kuht ]

noun

1. a carved block of wood from which prints are made.
2. a print or impression from such a block.

woodcut

/ ˈwʊdˌkʌt /

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of woodcut¹

First recorded in 1655–65; wood ¹ + cut

Example Sentences

These woodcuts are far from unprecedented, though, since they employ curving motifs like the ones the artist has long daubed on canvas.

From Washington Post

With this tool, Death is illustrated in many a 15th-century woodcut mowing down souls as if they were grain.

From The Daily Beast

The Daily Pic: Emily Henretta's woodcut captures technology's fragility.

From The Daily Beast

Barroso, for example, is working on a woodcut of a tablet computer.

From The Daily Beast

Many of the lines are wavy and irregular and there are no woodcut initials or ornaments of any kind.

From Project Gutenberg

Then and there I saw my book plate–a coloured woodcut, green and blue, with the pine in black on the key block!

From Project Gutenberg

It has, by way of frontispiece, a woodcut by Hans Sebald Beham, representing a number of sages seated round a table.

From Project Gutenberg

II.; and its derivation from the solid cusp will be understood, at once, from the woodcut Fig.

From Project Gutenberg

He stated that he had paid Thomas Bewick upwards of five hundred pounds for various woodcut blocks.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• etching
• illustration
• inscription
• lithograph