Word Finder - woodwork

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Something made from wood.

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Wood product.

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Working with wood.

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He does woodwork as a hobby.

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(only in plural, often in proper names) A workshop or factory devoted to making wood products.

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A place of concealment or obscurity.

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Friends and relatives were coming out of the woodwork to celebrate his good fortune.

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The frame of the goal, i.e. the goalpost or crossbar.

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That goal was so close, it went in off the woodwork.

The church of All Saints is mainly Perpendicular, and contains some fine woodwork, mostly of the 17th century, and some good memorial tombs.

Occasionally metal work or woodwork is used for intermediate piers.

The upper woodwork was consumed by fire in 1836, but the rest of the building was saved.

On the 2nd of February 1829 the woodwork of the choir was set on fire by Jonathan Martin, a madman.

The body of the church, however, is mainly transitional Norman with additions principally Decorated, including a beautiful east window, much ancient woodwork, and other details of interest.

The roofs throughout are of open woodwork very low in pitch, constructionally plain, but richly decorated with colour, now mostly restored.

It is also advisable to wash all woodwork and gangways annually with a weak solution of formalin, or other inodorous germicide.

The museum contains a beautiful Maori house of carved woodwork, and biological collections.

The church (Early English) contains some carved woodwork and ancient brasses.

The woodwork, including doors and door frames, was removable, and the tenant might bring and take away his own.

The old woodwork is fine, part being Perpendicular, but the greater portion dates from 1621.

Among several ancient houses the most interesting are a cottage with the date 1411 carved on its woodwork, and the Rose and Crown tavern, dated 1641.

The font is a fine specimen of the same style; and there is beautiful woodwork in the chancel.

Brian White, having finished with his leather pouches, started to rub down some of the internal woodwork.

The woodwork is finished in white, with a verdigris copper roof.

The Robins who should have had a cricket score took the lead through Abdul Abdi after hitting the woodwork on 3 occasions.

It was begun in 1369, and has double aisles, ambulatory and radiating chapels, and contains some finely carved woodwork.

The "auld haunted kirk," though roofless, is otherwise in a fair state of preservation, despite relic-hunters who have removed all the woodwork.

Near the town are the three fine old churches of Weston Zoyland, Chedzoy and Middlezoy, containing some good brasses and carved woodwork.

The church of St Lawrence is of Perpendicular and earlier date, largely restored; it contains fine woodwork and some interesting monuments.

While the boys are instructed in woodwork, needlework is taught to the girls, its introduction in 1889 having been the first recognition of practical instruction in any form.

The first cost of a hammer of moderate size is much less than that of a hydraulic press of like capacity, as is readily understood when we stop to reflect what powerful pressure, if gradually applied, would be needed to drive the nail which a light blow from our hand hammer forces easily into the woodwork.

Some of these, such as the lapacho and quebracho, are of rare excellence and durability, as is shown by the wonderful state of preservation in which the woodwork of early Jesuit churches still remains.

While the houses of the poorer classes are mean and too often dirty, in marked contrast are the houses of the wealthier citizens, built generally in a style of elaborate arabesque, the windows shaded with projecting cornices of graceful woodwork (mushrebiya) and ornamented with stained glass.

There are no dated specimens till the Assyrian iron saws (48) of the 7th century B.C. Drills were of flint (49) for hard material and bead-making, of bronze for woodwork.

The spores of the fungus will find a way through brickwork, concrete and similar material, in order to reach woodwork that may be on the other side.

External woodwork may be protected by painting or oiling.

Eleven days before a fire, caused by imprudence, had consumed all the woodwork of the Ka`ba and burst the black stone in three places.

One-third to be deducted off repairs to and renewal of woodwork of hull, masts and spars, furniture, upholstery, crockery, metal and glassware, also sails, rigging, ropes, sheets and hawsers (other than wire and chain), awnings, covers and painting.

They have been restricted principally to articles of necessity - food preparations, beverages, textiles and wearing apparel, leather and leatherwork, woodwork, pottery, chemicals, ironware, &c. In earlier days, when Chile had less competition in the production of wheat, flour mills were to be found everywhere in the wheat-producing provinces, and flour was one of the leading exports.

It dates from 1634 and contains some fine contemporary woodwork.

Medieval tapestries, with ecclesiastical vestments, ornaments and some fine pieces of early woodwork, are also preserved in Bucharest museum.

There he found mural paintings, some of which represented local lake or river scenes, carved woodwork, fragments of pottery, gypsum images of Buddha, and traces of gardens.

Among Batavia's manufactures are harvesters, ploughs, threshers and other agricultural implements, firearms, rubber tires, shoes, shell goods, paper-boxes and inside woodwork.

Its chief manufactures are silk work, cloths and cloaks, gold and silver ornaments, &c., brass and copper work, furniture and ornamental woodwork.

Everybody has a cleaning chore - brass, woodwork, windows, decks - we had a lot of fun with this.

Here's a simply guide to hiring the best woodwork contractor for the job.

Classes in craft, woodwork, pottery, gardening, computer skills and microwave cookery.

All woodwork painted in white gloss and the walls throughout with magnolia emulsion.

One of the most tedious tasks was stripping back the layers of chocolate brown paint from all the woodwork in the immense minstrels gallery.

Others include a guild altar piscina in the nave, and some woodwork in the chancel - nothing substantial, but lovingly preserved.

The almost slavish adherence to the idea that presentation is paramount is like applying gloss paint to rotten woodwork.

The woodwork is painted a vivid turquoise which, I am informed, was its original color.

With a single GCE in woodwork, Britain's most decorated sportsman is almost unqualified outside the field he must leave.

Wolves fielded nine players with first team experience, but despite rattling the woodwork twice, came away from the game empty handed.

There was also fine carved woodwork over the porch.

The galley area is totally enclosed in typical Freeman quality varnished woodwork, with matched veneer or timber.

The Swans then hit the woodwork twice in three minutes.

Walls throughout are white with dark stained woodwork around the doors.

The Dutchman then struck the woodwork with a low shot 13 minutes from time.