wood engraving

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English

Thomas Bewick, Barn Owl, 1847, wood engraving.

Noun

wood engraving (countable and uncountable, plural wood engravings)

  1. A variation of the woodcut method executed with a different tool (burin) and different wood (end grain), allowing for more detailed images.
    Hypernym: relief printing
    Coordinate term: woodcut
  2. (countable) A print taken from such an engraving.

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