butcher board

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

   Synonymsbutcher block

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Questions about butcher board

What does butcher board mean?

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

What is another word for butcher board?

Close synonyms include butcher block. 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 board a common word?

butcher board 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.