woodwork

UK/ˈwʊdˌwɜːk/US/ˈwʊdˌwɝk/

nounB2+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #8,977 of 15,258leans written

Woodwork is the craft of making things from timber. Study woodwork, good woodwork, the woodwork was rotten.

Wood moves with humidity across the grain and hardly at all along it, and every joint in traditional woodwork is designed around that fact. The word also means the wooden parts of a building, and coming out of the woodwork means appearing unexpectedly.

Definitions of woodwork

1nounwoodworkThe craft of making things from timber.B2+
“In woodwork class, we each made a small wooden box with a lid.”

woodwork is a craft.

Where it comes from

Wood plus work, recorded in Middle English as woodewerk, meaning carpentry.

Middle English
woodewerk — carpentry
English, today
woodwork

From Middle English woodewerk (“carpentry”), equivalent to wood + work.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in School Subjects

Practise this word

woodwork in the wild

AWI has published a Standard of Care for woodworking since 1961, called the Quality Standards Illustrated.
Architectural Woodwork Institute
Other common features included a hipped roof, arched entries between common rooms, built-in cabinetry, and Craftsman-style woodwork.
American Foursquare
A pipe clamp is a type of clamp often employed in piping, woodworking, and cabinet shops.
Pipe clamp
Rift sawing is a woodworking process that aims to produce lumber that is less vulnerable to distortion than flat-sawn lumber.
Rift sawing
The British Woodworking Federation is the trade association for the woodworking and joinery manufacturing industry in the UK.
British Woodworking Federation

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