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set work, ˈsetwork
[set ppl. a.]
†1. A kind of embroidery used in working tapestry; also attrib. Obs.
1503Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. II. 214 Ane gret liar of set werk of worsait. 1624Inv. in Archœologia XLVIII. 136 A set work chare. 1649in Bury Wills (Camden) 220 My posted settworke bedstead.
†2. Regular or fixed employment. Obs.
a1661Fuller Worthies, Leic. (1662) ii. 132 Especially making it his Set-work (what was Pits his by-work) to observe the Natives of this Shire.
†3. Piece-work. In quot. attrib. Obs.
1720S. Sewall Diary 12 Nov., His Trade of Set-Work Coopering.
4. Two-coat plastering on lath.
1812P. Nicholson Mech. Exerc. 312 The plasterers denominate set work by the compound term of layed and set.
5. a. A method of boat-building in which the strakes are placed edge to edge and battened inside. b. Mechanism for feeding transversely material that is being sawed. (In recent U.S. dicts.) |