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cutting board

US/ˈkʰʌɾɪŋ bɔɹd/
phraseB1Not compared — the two pools are counted one word at a time, so a phrase has no score

A cutting board is the flat wooden board you chop vegetables on. Wipe the cutting board.

Wood turns out to be safer than plastic, since the cuts in plastic hold bacteria. Keep one cutting board for raw meat and another for everything else.

Donovan Govan. · CC BY-SA 3.0

Definitions of cutting board

  1. 1phrasecutting boardThe flat wooden board you chop vegetables on.B1

    “The cutting board was worn hollow in the middle.”

    • Said"Use the cutting board, not the counter. I've just oiled that wood."
    • WrittenThe cutting board had a groove worn into it by thirty years of onions.
    • UsedKeep one cutting board for raw meat and another for everything else.
    • ContrastA cutting board, not a plate. You chop on the cutting board and serve on the plate. plate →
    • Not thisA tray is not a cutting board, however flat. A knife would ruin it in a week.
    • SimplyPut the carrot on the cutting board. Now cut it.

    Patternon a cutting board · a wooden / plastic cutting board · chop sth on a cutting board · chopping board

cutting board is a board.

Also accepted in games: chopping board

Remember it

CUTTING BOARD → the BOARD you CUT on

The flat wooden board you cut on, so the knife hits wood and not the table.

hooks ontocutboard

Practised in In the Kitchen

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