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Definition of Chopping block
1. Noun. A steady wooden block on which food can be cut or diced or wood can be split.
Definition of Chopping block
1. Noun. A wooden slab used as a cutting surface for food etc. ¹
2. Noun. (historical informal) A block of wood against which a condemned person put their head prior to beheading. ¹
3. Noun. (by extension) A dangerous predicament or situation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chopping Block
Literary usage of Chopping block
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Portion of the Journal Kept by Thomas Raikes, Esq., from 1831 to 1847 by Thomas Raikes (1857)
"Retributive justice was soon awarded ; the butcher was seized, and nailed alive
to his own chopping block ; four negroes were ordered to cut him in pieces, ..."
2. Technological dictionary: English-Spanish and Spanish-English of Words and by Néstor Ponce de León (1920)
"chopping block *t ador ПО (z'l ... smiling chisel, hot chisel, gouge chisel,
chopping block (cook ) chopping knife, ... de cocina, chopping block. ..."
3. Neuman and Baretti's Dictionary of the Spanish and English Languages by Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Baretti (1851)
"Chopping-block or board. 4. V. Filo. 5. Cutting, reaping, or digging of labourers
... A large block; chopping-block. 2. A vein of earth or soft stone in a ..."
4. Stories of Achievement edited by Asa Don Dickinson (1916)
"JAMES A. GARFIELD FROM CHOPPING-BLOCK TO COLLEGE As ONE of our trinity of so-called
martyred Presidents, Garfield will always be held in grateful and ..."
5. The Comedies of Aristophanes by Aristophanes (1837)
"Bring here the chopping-block and speak the oration; The penalty is ... This is
the chopping-block, and this The man that is to speak, though small as this. ..."
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