chopping block

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   a steady wooden block on which food can be cut or diced or wood can be split

   Broaderblock

Questions about chopping block

What does chopping block mean?

chopping block means "a steady wooden block on which food can be cut or diced or wood can be split".

Is chopping block a common word?

chopping 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.