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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
woodcut
noun
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▪ His tailpiece, most aptly, is Eric Gill's woodcut of an infantryman trudging along his Via Dolorosa.
▪ It conveys a good impression of the stylistic diversity of the woodcut as a medium, from Expressionism to today.
▪ Shadows merge into the snow; the woodcut turns into a shadowy chalk drawing.
▪ The woodcuts are only a few inches square, and defy the artists' desire for detail and extravagance.
▪ They need contrast, which brings them back to the black-and-white woodcuts of some one like Escher.
▪ They show slight variations, for example in the woodcut decorations.
▪ This group of woodcut prints foreshadows the horrors that were to come.
▪ This is an enlargement from an original fifteenth-century woodcut.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Woodcut

Woodcut \Wood"cut`\, n. An engraving on wood; also, a print from it. Same as Wood cut, under Wood.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
woodcut

"engraving on wood, or a print made from one," 1660s, from wood (n.) + cut (n.).

Wiktionary
woodcut

n. A print or a method of printmaking from an engraved block of wood.

WordNet
woodcut
  1. n. an engraving made from a woodcut [syn: wood engraving]

  2. engraving consisting of a block of wood with a design cut into it; used to make prints [syn: wood block, wood engraving]

Wikipedia
Woodcut

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 grain of the wood (unlike wood engraving where the block is cut in the end-grain). The surface is covered with ink by rolling over the surface with an ink-covered roller ( brayer), leaving ink upon the flat surface but not in the non-printing areas.

Multiple colors can be printed by keying the paper to a frame around the woodblocks (using a different block for each color). The art of carving the woodcut can be called "xylography", but this is rarely used in English for images alone, although that and "xylographic" are used in connection with blockbooks, which are small books containing text and images in the same block. Single-leaf woodcut is a term for a woodcut presented as a single image or print, as opposed to a book illustration.

Usage examples of "woodcut".

Life of Caxton, the reader will find interesting examples of the earliest woodcut blocks illustrating the quaint and rare tomes issued by the Almonry, Westminster, also at Oxford.

Ali Baba pursued his woodcutting, day in and day out, collecting vast and back-breaking quantities of wood in the wild forest beyond the city, receiving calluses upon his palms and splinters in his fingers, facing constant threats from wild bandits and wilder beasts, so that he might eke out the most meager of existences.

I had, and it all rushed out of me at once, as if I was one of those old woodcuts you see, where the wind, lumpily personified in a cloud, blusters at a many-masted galleon.

With 20 Full-page Illustrations, 6 Woodcuts, a Photogravure, and a new Portrait.

It looked like most of the others, a simple octavo volume with a formula in verse on the recto and a woodcut of the finished posy on the facing page.

In conclusion, it may be said that the present volume contains many precious relics of the Bewick, Newbury, Goldsmith, Newcastle York, Banbury, Coventry, and Catnach presses, and a representative collection of the stock of workable woodcuts of a provincial printer in the latter part of the 18th century, and to those who would like to inspect the rentable copies of those valuable and interesting little books, and some of the original Horn Books, etc.

But here, too, and elsewhere, the fundamental demands were the same: freedom from serfdom, from oppressive taxation and forced labor, and for unrestricted rights of hunting and woodcutting in the forests.

What seems to undergird this body of work is a conviction that our episodes of upheaval have a special graphic character and can be represented in painting, lithograph, and woodcut.

London printer, one Bridewall, pirated the work, and issued a cheap translation for sensational effect, full of grotesque woodcuts, and riddled with misspellings, faulty translations and the usual errors of a cheap and unscholarly printing.

In conclusion, it may be said that the present volume contains many precious relics of the Bewick, Newbury, Goldsmith, Newcastle York, Banbury, Coventry, and Catnach presses, and a representative collection of the stock of workable woodcuts of a provincial printer in the latter part of the 18th century, and to those who would like to inspect the rentable copies of those valuable and interesting little books, and some of the original Horn Books, etc.

In a woodcut of 1640 the position of the figures is reversed, but nothing more than the positions.

Hillary put a hand on the brass knob, still clutching the semisacred woodcut.

Shrewdly, Brady had gone beyond the normal distribution to magazines and newspapers for engravings and woodcuts.

Sovereign, master workman of the Knights of Labor, tickled the fancy of thousands of farmers who saw their own plight depicted in the crude but telling woodcuts which sprinkled the pages of the book.

They fell open on cobblestones and spilled out their illustrative woodcuts: portraits of great men, depictions of the Siege of Vienna, diagrams of mining-engines, a map of some Italian city, a dissection of the large bowel, vast tables of numbers, musketeer drills, geometers’ proofs, human skeletons in insouciant poses, the constellations of the Zodiac, rigging of foreign barkentines, design of alchemical furnaces, glaring Hottentots with bones in their noses, thirty flavors of Baroque window-frames.