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ˈdaywork, day-work
[Cf. also darg.]
†1. The work of a day; = day's work. Obs. or north. dial.
a1000Cædmon's Exod. 151 (Gr.) Þæt he þæt dæᵹweorc dreore ᵹebohte. c1425Wyntoun Cron. viii. xvi. 224 Na man..evyr herd, or saw befor..A Daywerk to þat Daywerk lyk. 1535Coverdale 1 Chron. xvii. [xvi.] 37 Euery daye his daye worke. 1832Specimens Yorkshire Dialect, Monny a daywark we ha' wrought togither.
†2. The amount of land that could be worked (ploughed, mown, etc.) in a day. Obs.
[c1270Merton Coll. Rec. No. 1257 (Essex) Sex Day⁓wercatas terrae meae.] 1318–19MS. in Sotheby's Sale Catal. 7 Apr. (1892) 22, Grant from Richard de Twysdenne..of a Garden of 13 Dayworks of Land in Gudhurst. 1492Will of Reede (Somerset Ho.), xj day werkes of land. 1534Inv. Sir L. Bagot in Lichfield Merc. (1889) 23 Aug. 8/1, xxviij day-warke of pea..xij daye-warke of barley..xxiiij daye-warke of whet. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 38 The South Wandell close, with its bottomes, is 8 dayworkes, or will serve one mower 8 dayes.
3. Work done by the day and paid by daily wages; day labour.
1580North Plutarch (1676) 950 With Masons that had their day-work. 1702Lond. Gaz. No. 3786/4 Committed by one who does Day-work in Deptford and Woolwich Yards. 1751C. Labelye Westm. Br. 79 All the workmanship..being suffered to be done by Day-Work. 1851Ord. & Regul. R. Engineers §16. 64 To state the weekly delivery of Materials and performance of Day-work. |