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woodwork
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. work made of wood; especially moldings or stairways or furniture the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood [syn: carpentry , woodworking ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Woodwork \Wood"work`\, n. Work made of wood; that part of any structure which is wrought of wood. Out of the woodwork Appearing suddenly, as if from within the walls.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable English) Something made from wood. 2 (context uncountable English) Wood product. 3 (context uncountable English) Working with wood. 4 (context only in plural often in proper names English) A workshop or factory devoted to making ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"article made of wood," 1640s, from wood (n.) + work (n.). Especially applied to wooden details of a house, hence figurative use of to come (or crawl) out of the woodwork , by 1960, suggestive of cockroaches, etc.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ VERB come ▪ Eventually Jim's old caddie came out of the woodwork again and I carried on for one or two other pros. ▪ Creativity was coming out of the woodwork . ▪ The players just came out of the woodwork . crawl ▪ They could ...
Usage examples of woodwork.
Beautiful Agami woodwork, larken-built, like all the best of the Agami: each panel was made of thousands of pieces of wood, some as large as a thumbnail, some as small as a splinter, each one invisibly glued into place, fitted together like the pieces of a puzzle.
Like mine, it was Agami larken woodwork, each side made of hundreds of smaller pieces carefully fit together, but this was not nearly as nice a piece of work as mine.
They have parallel-parked their bimbo boxes in identical computer-designed Burbclave street patterns and secreted themselves in symmetrical sheetrock shitholes with vinyl floors and ill-fitting woodwork and no sidewalks, vast house farms out in the loglo wilderness, a culture medium for a medium culture.
I knew that when Chubby had finished repairing the woodwork the damage would not be detectable.
A large wardrobe was built into one corner of the paneled woodwork, and a comfortable-looking bed with a gold velvet spread and ecru curtains that could be drawn occupied an inside wall.
His outstretched hand left a long smear of blood on the gilded woodwork of the throne room door.
All the woodwork is dark and varnished, as is the guilloche that runs below all E.
Her decks were snowy white, and they had replaced all the woodwork in the saloon bulkhead, a beautiful piece of joinery with which even I could find no fault.
He picked up a beer-soaked cloth and gave the woodwork a few enthusiastic wipes, speading the drips from the cordial glasses into a rainbow smear that took the varnish off.
At the time she had not known about old plaster, old stairs, old walls, nothing about splintered woodwork and senile plumbing-either balky or incontinent.
As the monoplane shot through it, I was aware of a faint taste of oil upon my lips, and there was a greasy scum upon the woodwork of the machine.
The ripping off of the shelter that has kept out a thousand storms, the tearing off of the once ornamental woodwork, the wrench of the inexorable crowbar, the murderous blows of the axe, the progressive ruin, which ends by rending all the joints asunder and flinging the tenoned and mortised timbers into heaps that will be sawed and split to warm some new habitation as firewood,--what a brutal act of destruction it seems!
And in the rear rose loftier, but decrepit, dwellings, with linen hung out to dry at their windows, a collection of fantastic structures, a confused mass of woodwork and masonry, overtoppling walls, and hanging gardens, in which coloured glass balls shone out like stars.
And still the pale phosphorescence glowed in that detestably ancient woodwork.
They had done all the restoration work themselves, moving beams and bathrooms, stripping woodwork, rewiring, retiling, resurfacing.