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handwork|ˈhændwɜːk|
Forms: 1 -weorc, 3–5 -werk, 6– work; also β. 3–5 hande-, (honde-) -werk, wark.
[OE. hand-weorc, found beside the more frequent hand ᵹeweorc handiwork. In ME. the northern dialect had hande-werk, as if f. an inflected form of hand; perh. after ON. handa-verk. When the e became mute in 14th c., this also sank into hand-werk.]
†1. A thing or quantity of things wrought or made by the hands; = handiwork 1. Obs.
a1000Riddles xxi. 7 Sinc hondweorc smiþa. a1300E.E. Psalter cxxxvii[i]. 8 Þi hend-werke ne forsake for-þi. c1325Metr. Hom. 71 This Makary Come unto the cyte..To sell thar hys handwerke. a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 3340 His handwerk and his creature. 1594Kyd Cornelia in Dodsley O. Pl. (1780) II. 253 Thou heaven's hand-work Fair Illium. 1895Morris Beowulf 16 The best of all war-shrouds, The hand-work of Weland.
βc1200Ormin 5054 Mann iss Godess handewerrc. a1300Cursor M. 1155 (Cott.) Mi handewark als egges me. c1340Ibid. 20222 (Fairf.) Kepe þi hande werk fra shame. c1470Henry Wallace ii. 186 Quhi will thow giff thi handewark for nocht?
2. Work done with the hands; working with the hands; manual operation or labour; now esp. as distinguished from work done by or with machinery.
a1000Eccles. Inst. 3 in Thorpe Laws II. 404 (Bosw.) Þurh ðæt handweorc. c1400Rom. Rose 6683 Of his hond⁓werk wolde he gete Clothes to wryne hym. 1552Latimer Serm. & Rem. (1845) 41 They think they get their livings with their own handwork. 1570Dee Math. Pref. 39 The Architect..directeth the Mechanicien, to handworke. 1601Holland Pliny II. 531 One brasen image he had of Mentors hand-worke. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Wealth Wks. (Bohn) II. 74 The incessant repetition of the same hand-work dwarfs the man. 1874J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Par. Churches 261 We hear a great deal about ‘handwork’; everything must be handwork. 1897The Chiswick Press 4 The reputation for Handwork which they have acquired. |