(a) work composed of or arranged in links; (b) see quot. 1855; (c) Geometry a system of lines, pivoted together so as to rotate about one another…

= frostwork, n. 1. Obsolete. rare.

A type of ornamental metalwork.

In the names of articles, work, etc., in which the materials are bent to shape, as bent iron work n. the making of ornamental ironwork as a home…

in wriggled work = wriggle-work n. at wriggle-, comb._form affix.

Tin-plated sheet-iron which is first varnished and then ornamented by decorative painting. Also in tôle peinte, painted sheet-iron.

the verb-stem used attributively in a few combinations, in the sense ‘undergoing or characterized by wriggling’, as wriggle-eye n.,wriggle-tail n. Obs…