ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ noun
: a relief printing plate made by photographing a design (as a pen-and-ink drawing composed of lines of varying thickness and sometimes grains, dots, stipples, cross-hatching) onto a plate or film and then photographing the negative onto a sensitized usually zinc or copper plate that is then developed with the lines that will form the relief printing surface being protected with an acid resist and the rest of the plate surface being etched down ; also : a print made from a linecut — called also line block, line engraving, line plate