the art of engraving pictures or designs on wood for printing by incising them with a burin on a block of wood cut across the grain
2.
a block of wood so engraved or a print taken from it
Derived forms
wood engraver
noun
wood engraving in American English
1.
the art or process of engraving on wood
2.
woodcut: a wood engraving is often distinguished from a woodcut in that the former uses a block of wood cut across the grain and the latter a block of wood cut along the grain