• Woodwork

    Origin

    wood + work

    Full definition of woodwork

    Noun

    woodwork

    (usually uncountable; plural woodworks)
    1. (countable) Something made from wood.
    2. (uncountable) Wood product.
      • 2008, September 14, Bill Cunniff, A stroll through OLD IRVING PARK
    3. (uncountable) Working with wood.He does woodwork as a hobby.
      • 1906, Tasmania. Education Dept, The unthinking man assumes that if woodwork is to be taught, the best person to do it must be a oarpenter
    4. (only in plural, often in proper names) A workshop or factory devoted to making wood products.
      • 1911, North Carolina Dept. of Conservation and Development, The woodworks now find utilization for almost every scrap. Pine stumps are changing into turpentine bottles.
    5. A place of concealment or obscurity.Friends and relatives were coming out of the woodwork to celebrate his good fortune.So when he wants to, he can just kind of blend into the woodwork.
    6. (football) The frame of the goal, i.e. the goalpost or crossbar.That goal was so close, it went in off the woodwork.
      • 2012, May 5, Phil McNulty, Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool, Carroll thought he had equalised with his header against the bar with eight minutes left. Liverpool claimed the ball had cross the line and Chelsea were grateful for a miraculous intervention from Cech to turn his effort on to the woodwork.

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