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woodwork, wood-work|ˈwʊdwɜːk|
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†a. A piece of work in wood; an article made of wood, or such articles collectively. Obs.
1650Bury Wills (Camden) 226, I give vnto my sonne Edmund Bacon all my plate,..hangings, wood worke, houshold stuffe, and furniture. 1681Grew Musæum ii. i. ii. 192 With these, all the turn'd Wood-Works in India and China are wrought and burnished. 1714Fr. Bk. of Rates 57 Wood-works, such as Pater-Nosters, Button-Molds, Toys, &c. c1792Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) IX. 342/2 The acknowledged skill of her ancient artizans in wood-works.
b. (without pl.) Work in wood; esp. those parts or details of a manufactured object or artificial structure which are made of wood; the wooden part of something.
1684T. Burnet Th. Earth i. 205 If we could suppose this mill to have a power..of repairing all the parts that were worn away, whether of the wood-work or of the stone. 1725Fam. Dict. s.v. Plough, This depends much upon the Truth of the Iron Work, and therefore it is best the Plough should rather be accommodated to the Irons,..the Wood-work being easily alter'd. 1837Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 6/1 A groin is a frame of wood-work, constructed across a beach. 1852Thackeray Esmond iii. vii, That long cupboard over the woodwork of the mantelpiece. 1880McCarthy Own Times III. xxxviii. 178 Some of the woodwork of the benches was..torn from its place.
c. Assoc. Football slang. The frame of the goalposts.
1960Times 21 Nov. 4/2 Three more times they hit Bonetti's woodwork. 1977Grimsby Even. Tel. 5 May 18/6 Twice in the first half, Scunthorpe hit the Bradford woodwork.
d. Phr. to come or crawl out of the woodwork and varr., to come out of hiding; to emerge from obscurity. So to crawl (back) into the woodwork and varr., to disappear into obscurity.
1964‘E. Lathen’ Accounting for Murder (1965) vii. 59 These nutboys start crawling out of the woodwork. 1973Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Feb. 154/4 The Nazi elite faded into the woodwork without waiting to be removed, making it tempting to say that denazification should have been left to the Germans. 1973Current Affairs Bull. (Sydney) Aug. 31/1 They are the new Australian playwrights and they are coming out of the woodwork everywhere. 1974‘M. Innes’ Appleby's Other Story iv. 30 At least we can tell this bloody wog to crawl back into the woodwork. 1977C. McCullough Thorn Birds xii. 289 Funny how the men in my life all scuttle off into the woodwork, isn't it? 1979‘J. le Carré’ Smiley's People (1980) iii. 39 George Smiley, sometime Chief of the Secret Service..had one night come out of the woodwork to peer at some dead foreigner. 1984Broadcast 7 Dec. 27/1 The imminence of a BBC licence increase application brings the advertising agencies out of the woodwork.
†2. A grove or plantation artificially laid out.
1712J. James tr. Le Blond's Gardening 28 A large Wood⁓work cut into a Star, with a circular Alley.
3. a. Work done at cutting wood. nonce-use.
a1861T. Winthrop Life in Open Air xii. (1863) 94 We..chopped at the woods for fuel. Speaking for myself, I should say that our wood-work was ill done.
b. Work done in wood, as carpentry.
1913Board Educ. Rep. Pract. Work Secondary Sch. 84 Syllabus of wood-work for country or small isolated Schools.
c. Forestry, work done in woods.
1738W. Ellis Timber-Tree Improved i. 24 There is in my Neighbourhood a Man that is..often imployed in Wood-Work. 1904G. A. B. Dewar Glamour of Earth x. 243 Making a good and sure living..and filling an honourable post in wood work, to our surprise he took one day a strange step: flung up his work and migrated..to the town.
4. attrib.
1959I. & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolch. xvii. 362 The gardening master is commonly ‘Spuds’, the woodwork teacher is ‘Chips’. 1980E. Blishen Nest of Teachers i. iv. 22 The woodwork master..insisted that I come with him to his woodwork centre.
So ˈwoodˌworker, (a) a worker in wood, one who makes things of wood; (b) a machine for working in wood (= joiner n. 3); ˈwoodˌworking, the action of working in wood, the manufacture of wooden articles (also attrib.); also, forestry. † ˈwoodˌworkman = woodworker (a).
1659in Marshall Edwinstow Reg. (1891) 32 Geo. Wightman..a woodworkman. 1872J. Richards (title) A Treatise on the construction..of Wood-working Machines. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 418/1 Cabinet-file, a smooth, single⁓cut file, used in wood-working. Ibid. 2813/2 Wood-worker, a machine-tool having various attachments and adjustments for different kinds of work. 1890W. J. Gordon Foundry 71 We stroll through the woodworking-shops, where nothing is done by hand that can be done by machine. 1892Labour Commission Gloss. s.v., In the coach-making trade wood workers consist of wheel-makers, body-makers.., and carriage-makers. 1950New Yorker 26 Aug. 71/1 Woodworking firms are making a candid twelve-per-cent profit. 1951R. Firth Elem. Social Organization ii. 51 Their introduced steel tools must have materially lightened the labour of wood⁓working and clearing of brush-wood in agriculture. |