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  1.  Wood-engraving. Also attrib.

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1722.  Hearne’s Collect. (O.H.S.), VII. 381. Wood-cutting being not so much used since ingraving came up.

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1871.  Alabaster, Wheel of Law, liv. The arts of printing and woodcutting have, in China and Japan, made books very cheap.

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1890.  Athenæum, 1 March, 281/2. Many inequalities and differences often observed in the output of woodcutting botteghe.

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  2.  The action or employment of cutting down trees for wood, or of cutting wood with saws or other appliances. Also attrib.

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1872.  J. Richards, Wood-working Machines, 32. Wood-cutting Machines.

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1893.  Rodway, Hand-bk. Brit. Guiana, 49. Wood-cutting grants are obtainable. Ibid. (1899), Guiana Wilds, 19. Now and again he did a little wood-cutting.

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