butcher block

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   a thick wooden slab formed by bonding together thick laminated strips of unpainted hardwood

   Synonymsbutcher board

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Questions about butcher block

What does butcher block mean?

butcher block means "a thick wooden slab formed by bonding together thick laminated strips of unpainted hardwood".

What is another word for butcher block?

Close synonyms include butcher board. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is butcher block a common word?

butcher block is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.