woodcut
(ˈwʊdkʌt)
[f. wood n.1 + cut n.2 22.]
A design cut in relief on a block of wood, for printing from; a print or impression obtained from this; a wood-engraving. (Formerly more freq. called wooden cut: see wooden a. 4.)
| 1662 Evelyn Chalcogr. 84 All those excellent Wood Cuts of Hans Schirstyn and Adam Altorf. 1816 Ottley Hist. Engraving I. 102 The wood-cuts, which constitute what are termed the old block-books. 1835 Dickens Let. to Miss Hogarth, A new publication..each number to contain four woodcuts. 1857 H. Spencer in Westm. Rev. Apr. 460 The woodcuts of the Illustrated London News. |
| attrib. 1865 Way Promp. Parv. p. xlv, The well-known wood-cut device used by Wynkyn de Worde. 1887 R. R. Bowker in Harper's Mag. July 182/1 Charles Knight's popular illustrated books..again revived wood-cut work. |