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- Dictionarywoodcut/ˈwʊdkʌt/
noun
- 1. a print of a type made from a design cut in a block of wood, formerly widely used for illustrations in books.
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Woodcut is a relief printing technique in printmaking. An artist carves an image into the surface of a block of wood—typically with gouges—leaving the printing parts level with the surface while removing the non-printing parts. Areas that the artist cuts away carry no ink, while characters or images at surface level carry the ink to produce the print. The block is cut along the wood grain (unlike ... Wikipedia