Wood cut into blocks or prepared in block form for use in construction, printing, or as fuel.
Compound of 'block' and 'wood.' This practical term emerged during the Industrial Revolution when standardized wood products became commercially important.
Blockwood was crucial to early printing—printers would carve images into wood blocks to create prints, and whole industries developed around producing perfectly uniform wood blocks.
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