setworkn.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > done in specific stitches
setwork1503
chain-stitch1598
true-stitch1606
cross-stitchc1710
tent-work1798
faggoting1868
plumage work1886
pin stitching1900
pattern darning1906
rococo stitch1906
1503 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 214 Ane gret liar of set werk of worsait.
1624 Inv. in Archœologia XLVIII. 136 A set work chare.
1649 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 220 My posted settworke bedstead.
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society > occupation and work > [noun] > regular occupation, trade, or profession
workeOE
mysteryc1390
facultyc1405
business1477
industrya1500
roomc1500
trade1525
pursuit1529
function1533
calling1539
profession?1552
vocation1553
entertainment1568
station1574
qualitya1586
employment1598
way of lifea1616
state1625
cloth1656
avocation1660
setworka1661
employ1669
estate1685
walk of life?1746
walk1836
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Leic. 132 Especially making it his Set-work (what was Pits his by-work) to observe the Natives of this Shire.
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society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > piecework
task-work1486
piecework1549
setwork1720
job work1780
measured work1834
measure-work1852
great work1855
piece labour1859
1720 S. Sewall Diary 12 Nov. (1973) II. 968 His Trade of Set-Work Coopering.
4. Two-coat plastering on lath.
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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > surfacing or cladding > [noun] > bricklaying and plastering > plastering > second coat or two coats
render set1796
set-fair1812
setwork1812
1812 P. Nicholson Mech. Exercises 312 The plasterers denominate set work by the compound term of layed and set.
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a. A method of boat-building in which the strakes are placed edge to edge and battened inside.
b. Mechanism for feeding transversely material that is being sawed. (In recent U.S. dictionaries.)
6. Repetition work (see repetition n.1 Compounds 2).
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1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Set Work, work which is repeated many times over or perpetually in the workshop.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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