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Chainwork

Chainwork \Chain"work`\, n. Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain stitch work.

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chainwork

n. Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain.

Usage examples of "chainwork".

On it, he could see the impress of his rough frieze, a pink trough of interlocking chainwork, where she had gripped him so hard.

From great brass censers, swinging low by exquisite Venetian chainwork, fragrant smoke curled upward, crossing with slender rays of blue the gold webwork of the sunlight.