metalwork

nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #14,783 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: metalworks

Metalwork is the craft of shaping and joining metal, and the things made that way. School metalwork, decorative metalwork, a metalwork shop.

As a school subject it sits beside woodwork and teaches cutting, filing, brazing and welding. The word also names the finished pieces, so the metalwork of a gate means its iron parts.

Definitions of metalwork

1nounmetalworkThe craft of shaping and joining metal.B2+
“He took metalwork instead of woodwork in the third year.”

metalwork is a craft.

Where it comes from

Middle English
metal
English
metal
English, today
metalwork

From metal + -work. metal comes from Middle English metal. From Middle English metal, a borrowing from Old French metal, from Latin metallum (“metal, mine, quarry, mineral”), itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek μέταλλον (“mine, quarry, metal”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in School Subjects

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metalwork in the wild

The style became important in Migration Period metalwork, mainly animal style jewellery, where the faceted surfaces created caught the light to give a glinting appearance.
Chip carving
The historical roots of metalworking predate recorded history; its use spans cultures, civilizations and millennia.
Metalworking
Modern metalworking workshops, typically known as machine shops, hold a wide variety of specialized or general-use machine tools capable of creating highly precise, useful products.
Metalworking
Filigree (also less commonly spelled filagree, and formerly written filigrann or filigrene) is a form of intricate metalwork used in jewellery and other small forms of metalwork.
Filigree
Smithing is one of the oldest metalworking occupations.
Metalsmith

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