woodworknoun [ U ]
uk/ˈwʊd.wɜːk/us/ˈwʊd.wɝːk/woodwork noun [ U ] (STRUCTURE)
the wooden parts of a building, especially a house:
There's some rotting woodwork on the outside of the house that we need to replace.
UK informal any part of the wooden or metal frame that forms part of a goal in football:
Liverpool hit the woodwork twice in the first half.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Building: carpentry & joinery
- beading
- bevel
- bevelled
- cabinetmaker
- carpenter
- fretsaw
- gimlet
- jigsaw
- joinery
- mitre
- mortice
- panel
- plane
- prime
- sand
- sandpaper
- sawdust
- season
- shelve
- tenon
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Parts of buildings: walls & parts of walls
Football/soccer
woodwork noun [ U ] (ACTIVITY)
mainly UK US usually woodworking the activity of making objects such as furniture from wood:
woodwork classes/lessons
I used to enjoy woodwork at school.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Building: carpentry & joinery
- beading
- bevel
- bevelled
- cabinetmaker
- carpenter
- fretsaw
- gimlet
- jigsaw
- joinery
- mitre
- mortice
- panel
- plane
- prime
- sand
- sandpaper
- sawdust
- season
- shelve
- tenon
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Idiom(s)
come/crawl out of the woodwork