woodblock

See also: wood-block and wood block

English

Woodblocks (2)
Woodblock (3)

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Etymology

wood + block

Noun

woodblock (plural woodblocks)

  1. A woodcut.
  2. (music) A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow block of wood struck with a drumstick.
  3. (printing) A wooden block used as a printing form.
    Synonym: woodcut
  4. (philately) The emergency issue of the Cape triangles, printed in 1861.

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