单词 | wood-cutting |
释义 | wood-cuttingn. 1. Wood-engraving. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > relief engraving > [noun] > wood engraving and cutting wood-cutting1722 wood-engraving1816 xylography1816 lignography1849 1722 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1906) VII. 381 Wood-cutting being not so much used since ingraving came up. 1871 H. Alabaster Wheel of Law liv The arts of printing and woodcutting have, in China and Japan, made books very cheap. 1890 Athenæum 1 Mar. 281/2 Many inequalities..observed in the output of woodcutting botteghe. 2. The action or employment of cutting down trees for wood, or of cutting wood with saws or other appliances. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > felling trees fallinga1425 felling1447 fell1531 fall1535 woodfall1588 slaughter1657 logging1706 tree-felling1759 fallage1788 slashing1822 fellage1839 wood-cutting1872 throw1879 bush-falling1882 drive1899 bushwhacking1906 clear-cutting1922 coupe1922 landnam1950 1872 J. Richards Treat. Wood-working Machines 32 Wood~cutting Machines. 1893 J. Rodway Hand-bk. Brit. Guiana 49 Wood-cutting grants are obtainable. 1899 J. Rodway In Guiana Wilds 19 Now and again he did a little wood-cutting. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1722 |
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