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Metalwork   /mˈɛtəlwˌərk/   Listen
Metalwork

noun
1.
The metal parts of something.
2.
The activity of making things out of metal in a skillful manner.  Synonym: metalworking.





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"Metalwork" Quotes from Famous Books



... before the multimillionaire had made the need for an augmentative of the word "luxury"; and Jim's house was noteworthy for its beauty: its cunningly wrought iron and wood; and columned halls and stairways; and wide-throated fireplaces, each a picture in tile, wood, and metalwork; and vistas like little fairylands through silken portieres; and carven chairs and couches, reminiscent of royal palaces; and chambers where lovely color-schemes were worked out in rug, and bed, and canopy. There were decorations ...
— Aladdin & Co. - A Romance of Yankee Magic • Herbert Quick
... been inlaid with gold in an intricate design. We had never seen such a weapon. The crude knives that I had seen throughout the islands were not to be compared to the wonderfully polished blade that had been intended to free either Holman or myself from all earthly cares, while the metalwork showed a craftmanship that made one wonder how many centuries had elapsed since the Polynesian artist who had fashioned the weapon had been laid in the Cavern of Skulls. The sinnet work and the parquetry of split bamboo, ...
— The White Waterfall • James Francis Dwyer


Words linked to "Metalwork" :   work, shaping, metalworking, piece of work, formation


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