Wiktionary
alt. A style of assembled wood (often sugar maple, teak, or walnut) used as heavy duty chopping blocks, table tops, and cutting boards. n. A style of assembled wood (often sugar maple, teak, or walnut) used as heavy duty chopping blocks, table tops, and cutting boards.
WordNet
n. a thick wooden slab formed by bonding together thick laminated strips of unpainted hardwood [syn: butcher board]
Wikipedia
Butcher block, butcher's block is a style of assembled wood (often hard maple, teak, or walnut) used as heavy duty chopping blocks, table tops, and cutting boards. It was commonly used in butcher shops and meat processing plants but has now become popular in home use.
There are two basic styles of butcher block: end grain and edge grain.
Butcher blocks have been used in butcher shops for centuries, and still are in many European countries. Increasingly, though, butcher block is being used in domestic kitchens as an alternative to stone and laminate countertops. This has created a new industry in the kitchen design arena and many furniture manufacturers and hardwood flooring companies are getting into the production of butcher blocks and butcher block countertops. One reason is that they can use a lot of the wood that are cut offs from their other products to construct the countertops.
Usage examples of "butcher block".
Under the butcher block was a drawer where she expected to find knives.
In a half squat, shambling side to side and using his swinging arms for counterbalance, just as a frightened monkey might scamper, the boy turns a corner at a long butcher block and encounters a cook who's gazing out across the enormous kitchen, wide-eyed, watching the hunters.
A few rounds ricocheted by her head, off a butcher block that had been fused with a flatscreen workstation, showering Anderson with splinters of wood and plastic.
Sal Delicato used a finger to write the numerals in pig blood on a butcher block.
For emphasis he raised the rabbit and slammed it down on the butcher block, neither of which suffered from the blow.
Sam walked through the darkness, hand gliding along the butcher block countertop of the L-shaped kitchen.