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wood block

wood block is the alternative form of woodblock.

Meaning of woodblock

Noun

woodblock (plural woodblocks)

  1. A woodcut.
  2. A percussion instrument consisting of a hollow block of wood struck with a drumstick.
  3. A wooden block used as a printing form.
    • In 1569 Choe Bu’s grandson, Yu Hi-chun, published the book in a wood block edition at Jeongju, Pyeongan Province.2006, Kim Tae Joon, “Literature from Exiles”, in Lee Kyong-hee, transl., Korean Travel Literature, Ewha Womans University Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 106
    Synonyms:
    woodcut
  4. The emergency issue of the Cape triangles, printed in 1861.

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Forms of wood block

pluralwood blocks

Questions about wood block

What is wood block the alternative form of?
Wood block is the alternative form of woodblock.

Words near wood block in the dictionary

  1. wood avens
  2. wood bedstraw
  3. wood betonies
  4. wood betony
  5. wood bison
  6. wood block
  7. wood blocks
  8. wood brown
  9. wood browns
  10. wood buffalo
  11. wood bug

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