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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
handiwork
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
admire
▪ She heard him returning just as she sat back to admire her handiwork.
▪ This cut down on graffiti, Rascon said, because graffiti writers prefer well-lit areas so they can admire their handiwork.
▪ In a few moments, he shut the beam off, and admired his handiwork.
▪ She thumb-cocked the piece, and stood back, admiring her handiwork.
▪ He stood back to admire his handiwork.
▪ I stood back and admired my handiwork, then I turned to leave.
▪ Finally she stepped back from the table to admire her handiwork.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Examples of her handiwork were propped around the studio.
▪ I could see that her haircolor was the handiwork of an expert.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Another tore sheets of newspaper into smaller and smaller pieces, carefully guarding her handiwork.
▪ He had been stoned to death, explained the small crowd, approving its handiwork.
▪ She opened her eyes, and surveyed her handiwork.
▪ She thumb-cocked the piece, and stood back, admiring her handiwork.
▪ Thanks to its vigorous and far-seeing headmaster, it also found time for physical recreation, handiwork classes and art.
▪ The two of them move from room to room and stand there nodding in apparent admiration of Tod's handiwork.
▪ This cut down on graffiti, Rascon said, because graffiti writers prefer well-lit areas so they can admire their handiwork.
▪ This nastiness is the handiwork of Rep.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Handiwork

Handiwork \Hand"i*work`\ (-[i^]*w[^u]rk`), n. [OE. handiwerc, AS. handgeweorc; hand hand + geweorc work; prefix ge- + weorc. See Work.] Work done by the hands; hence, any work done personally.

The firmament showeth his handiwork.
--Ps. xix. 1.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
handiwork

late 12c., from Old English handgeweorc, from hand (n.) + geweorc, collective form of weorc "work" (see work (n.)). Old English ge- regularly reduces to i- in Middle English, and the word probably came to be felt as handy + work.

Wiktionary
handiwork

n. 1 Work done by the hands. 2 Work done personally. 3 The result of personal efforts.

WordNet
handiwork

n. a work produced by hand labor [syn: handicraft, handcraft, handwork]

Wikipedia
Handiwork (album)

Handiwork is the seventh studio album by the Canadian guitarist Rik Emmett, released in 2002. It is second fully instrumental album recorded by Emmett.

Usage examples of "handiwork".

He did not believe that the basin was inhabited by other than wild beasts, and he attributed the building which he saw to the handiwork of an extinct or departed people, either contemporaneous with the ancient Atlantians who had built Opar or, perhaps, built by the original Oparians themselves, but now forgotten by their descendants.

Some were large, but one or two--and this is a wonderful instance of how nature carries out her handiwork by the same unvarying laws, utterly irrespective of size--were tiny.

Frederik was still contentedly peering through the ironwork at the activity below when Cneajna, Eupraxia, and Smaranda dropped their handiwork and jumped up so they could curtsy to the most eligible bachelor in the dukedom as he strolled out onto the balcony.

Time and moths had lent these standards a gauzelike authenticity while rust had etched a handiwork into the suited armour and armoury that they had never possessed when he had bought them.

As through a template of wrapped and spun wire, Dakar saw his own handiwork laced into the mesh, clumsy weavings like botched snags of string clumped within the fiercely clean elegance of Fellowship crafting.

So proud was the topiarist of his careful handiwork that he had signed his name in box trees.

When the dam is built the beavers often dig a channel around either end to carry off the surplus water, and so prevent their handiwork being washed away in a freshet.

The entire fleet bore marks of the handiwork of the rebels, in the shape of battered casemates, broken chimneys, and shattered upper works.

As Cressida stepped back with her companion ladies to view their handiwork, she felt that their efforts had been fully justified.

She stood on her tiptoes and peeked over his shoulder to see his handiwork.

As with other vehicles in the small fleet, the truck had been repainted several times, the legend on its sides changed too-all of it the handiwork of Rafael.

Pleased with his handiwork, he rocked back in his seat to watch the sensors cycle through their business and throw the answers up onto the screen.

The silhouettes of the skinheads paused a moment by the sheds, looking back at their handiwork.

The carriages leading the funeral train she had been watching only a few minutes before would undoubtedly have been decked with produce bearing that name, although the actual flowers would have been the handiwork of subcontractors using mass-produced seeds manufactured according to patented gentemplates.

Morre returned the cautery to the brazier and examined his handiwork, critically, while Don Caspar relaxed, sobbing despite himself, and a lancer cleaned his buttocks and legs of what had come when his anal sphincter failed.