woodworkn.

Brit.

/ˈwʊdwəːk/, U.S.

/ˈwʊdˌwərk/

Forms: Also wood-work.

†a. A piece of work in wood; an article made of wood, or such articles collectively. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > piece of

woodOE

woodwork1650

woodware1859

1650 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 226 I give vnto my sonne Edmund Bacon all my plate,..hangings, wood worke, houshold stuffe, and furniture.

1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis ii. i. ii. 192 With these, all the turn'd Wood-Works in India and China are wrought and burnished.

1714 tr. French Bk. of Rates 57 Wood-works, such as Pater-Nosters, Button-Molds, Toys, &c.

c1792 Encycl. Brit. IX. 342/2 The acknowledged skill of her ancient artizans in wood-works.

b. (without plural) Work in wood; esp. those parts or details of a manufactured object or artificial structure which are made of wood; the wooden part of something.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of

woodwork1684

1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth ii. 205 If we could suppose this mill to have a power..of repairing all the parts that were worn away, whether of the wood-work or of the stone.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Plough This depends much upon the Truth of the Iron Work, and therefore it is best the Plough should rather be accommodated to the Irons,..the Wood-work being easily alter'd.

1837 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 6/1 A groin is a frame of wood-work, constructed across a beach.

1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond III. vii. 174 That long cupboard over the woodwork of the mantelpiece.

1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times III. xxxviii. 178 Some of the woodwork of the benches was..torn from its place.

c. Association Football slang. The frame of the goalposts.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > association football > [noun] > frame or tape of goal

tape1867

woodwork1960

1960 Times 21 Nov. 4/2 Three more times they hit Bonetti's woodwork.

1977 Grimsby Evening Tel. 5 May 18/6 Twice in the first half, Scunthorpe hit the Bradford woodwork.

d. to come or crawl out of the woodwork and variants, to come out of hiding; to emerge from obscurity. So to crawl (back) into the woodwork and variants, to disappear into obscurity.

ΘΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > obscurity or ingloriousness > be or become obscure [verb (intransitive)]

eclipsec1430

to be in the shade1806

to crawl (back) into the woodwork1964

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > state of being well-known > become well-known [verb (intransitive)]

to come or crawl out of the woodwork1964

society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or make revelations [verb (intransitive)] > be disclosed or revealed

to come to (also in, on) (the) lightOE

sutelea1000

kitheOE

unfoldc1350

disclosea1513

burst1542

to break up1584

to take vent1611

vent1622

bleed1645

emerge1664

to get (also have) vent1668

to get or take wind1668

to stand (appear) confessed1708

eclat1736

perspire1748

transpire1748

to come out1751

develop1805

unroll1807

spunk1808

effloresce1834

to come to the front1871

to show up1879

out1894

evolve1920

to come or crawl out of the woodwork1964

1964 ‘E. Lathen’ Accounting for Murder (1965) vii. 59 These nutboys start crawling out of the woodwork.

1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Feb. 154/4 The Nazi elite faded into the woodwork without waiting to be removed, making it tempting to say that denazification should have been left to the Germans.

1973 Current Affairs Bull. (Sydney) Aug. 31/1 They are the new Australian playwrights and they are coming out of the woodwork everywhere.

1974 ‘M. Innes’ Appleby's Other Story iv. 30 At least we can tell this bloody wog to crawl back into the woodwork.

1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds xii. 289 Funny how the men in my life all scuttle off into the woodwork, isn't it?

1979 ‘J. le Carré’ Smiley's People (1980) iii. 39 George Smiley, sometime Chief of the Secret Service..had one night come out of the woodwork to peer at some dead foreigner.

1984 Broadcast 7 Dec. 27/1 The imminence of a BBC licence increase application brings the advertising agencies out of the woodwork.

†2. A grove or plantation artificially laid out.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > farm > [noun] > estate or plantation

plantation1626

penc1695

walk1697

woodwork1712

estate1772

grass pen1774

fazenda1825

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > planted, cultivated, or valued

high forest1477

planting1535

plantation1669

woodwork1712

wooding1788

1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 28 A large Wood~work cut into a Star, with a circular Alley.

a. Work done at cutting wood.Apparently an isolated use.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > sawing or cutting

sawingc1450

woodworka1861

a1861 T. Winthrop Life in Open Air (1863) xii. 94 We..chopped at the woods for fuel. Speaking for myself, I should say that our wood-work was ill done.

b. Work done in wood, as carpentry.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun]

tree-workc1275

carpentry1377

wrightinga1500

wrightrya1500

carpenter-work?1553

carpentership1574

wright-work1630

chipping trade1792

carpentering1838

woodcraft1853

woodworking1872

axemanship1893

woodwork1913

1913 Board Educ. Rep. Pract. Work Secondary Sch. 84 Syllabus of wood-work for country or small isolated Schools.

c. Forestry, work done in woods.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun]

woodwork1738

arboriculture1828

forestry1859

woodworking1872

sylviculture1880

silvics1907

agroforestry1934

tree farm1941

tree farming1942

1738 W. Ellis Timber-tree Improved I. i. 19 There is in my Neighbourhood a Man that..is often imployed in Wood Work.

1904 G. A. B. Dewar Glamour of Earth x. 243 Making a good and sure living..and filling an honourable post in wood work, to our surprise he took one day a strange step: flung up his work and migrated..to the town.

4. attributive.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [adjective]

woodwork1959

1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xvii. 362 The gardening master is commonly ‘Spuds’, the woodwork teacher is ‘Chips’.

1980 E. Blishen Nest of Teachers i. iv. 22 The woodwork master..insisted that I come with him to his woodwork centre.

Derivatives

ˈwoodˌworker n. (a) a worker in wood, one who makes things of wood; (b) a machine for working in wood (= joiner n. 3).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with other materials > [noun] > with wood

woodworker1875

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > woodworker > [noun]

wrighta1200

woodworkman1659

woodwright1867

woodworker1875

woodman1879

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2813/2 Wood-worker, a machine-tool having various attachments and adjustments for different kinds of work.

1892 Labour Commission Gloss. s.v. In the coach-making trade wood workers consist of wheel-makers, body-makers.., and carriage-makers.

ˈwoodˌworking n. the action of working in wood, the manufacture of wooden articles (also attributive); also, forestry.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun]

woodwork1738

arboriculture1828

forestry1859

woodworking1872

sylviculture1880

silvics1907

agroforestry1934

tree farm1941

tree farming1942

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun]

tree-workc1275

carpentry1377

wrightinga1500

wrightrya1500

carpenter-work?1553

carpentership1574

wright-work1630

chipping trade1792

carpentering1838

woodcraft1853

woodworking1872

axemanship1893

woodwork1913

1872 J. Richards (title) A Treatise on the construction..of Wood-working Machines.

1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 418/1 Cabinet-file, a smooth, single~cut file, used in wood-working.

1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 71 We stroll through the woodworking-shops, where nothing is done by hand that can be done by machine.

1950 New Yorker 26 Aug. 71/1 Woodworking firms are making a candid twelve-per-cent profit.

1951 R. Firth Elements Social Organization ii. 51 Their introduced steel tools must have materially lightened the labour of wood~working and clearing of brush-wood in agriculture.

† ˈwoodˌworkman n. Obsolete = woodworker n. (a).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > woodworker > [noun]

wrighta1200

woodworkman1659

woodwright1867

woodworker1875

woodman1879

1659 in Marshall Edwinstow Reg. (1891) 32 Geo. Wightman..a woodworkman.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	woodwork
释义	woodworkn. Brit. /ˈwʊdwəːk/, U.S. /ˈwʊdˌwərk/ Forms: Also wood-work. 1. †a. A piece of work in wood; an article made of wood, or such articles collectively. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of > piece of woodOE woodwork1650 woodware1859 1650 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 226 I give vnto my sonne Edmund Bacon all my plate,..hangings, wood worke, houshold stuffe, and furniture. 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis ii. i. ii. 192 With these, all the turn'd Wood-Works in India and China are wrought and burnished. 1714 tr. French Bk. of Rates 57 Wood-works, such as Pater-Nosters, Button-Molds, Toys, &c. c1792 Encycl. Brit. IX. 342/2 The acknowledged skill of her ancient artizans in wood-works. b. (without plural) Work in wood; esp. those parts or details of a manufactured object or artificial structure which are made of wood; the wooden part of something. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > wooden structures or wooden parts of woodwork1684 1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth ii. 205 If we could suppose this mill to have a power..of repairing all the parts that were worn away, whether of the wood-work or of the stone. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Plough This depends much upon the Truth of the Iron Work, and therefore it is best the Plough should rather be accommodated to the Irons,..the Wood-work being easily alter'd. 1837 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 6/1 A groin is a frame of wood-work, constructed across a beach. 1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond III. vii. 174 That long cupboard over the woodwork of the mantelpiece. 1880 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times III. xxxviii. 178 Some of the woodwork of the benches was..torn from its place. c. Association Football slang. The frame of the goalposts. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > association football > [noun] > frame or tape of goal tape1867 woodwork1960 1960 Times 21 Nov. 4/2 Three more times they hit Bonetti's woodwork. 1977 Grimsby Evening Tel. 5 May 18/6 Twice in the first half, Scunthorpe hit the Bradford woodwork. d. to come or crawl out of the woodwork and variants, to come out of hiding; to emerge from obscurity. So to crawl (back) into the woodwork and variants, to disappear into obscurity. ΘΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > obscurity or ingloriousness > be or become obscure [verb (intransitive)] eclipsec1430 to be in the shade1806 to crawl (back) into the woodwork1964 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > state of being well-known > become well-known [verb (intransitive)] to come or crawl out of the woodwork1964 society > communication > manifestation > disclosure or revelation > disclose or make revelations [verb (intransitive)] > be disclosed or revealed to come to (also in, on) (the) lightOE sutelea1000 kitheOE unfoldc1350 disclosea1513 burst1542 to break up1584 to take vent1611 vent1622 bleed1645 emerge1664 to get (also have) vent1668 to get or take wind1668 to stand (appear) confessed1708 eclat1736 perspire1748 transpire1748 to come out1751 develop1805 unroll1807 spunk1808 effloresce1834 to come to the front1871 to show up1879 out1894 evolve1920 to come or crawl out of the woodwork1964 1964 ‘E. Lathen’ Accounting for Murder (1965) vii. 59 These nutboys start crawling out of the woodwork. 1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Feb. 154/4 The Nazi elite faded into the woodwork without waiting to be removed, making it tempting to say that denazification should have been left to the Germans. 1973 Current Affairs Bull. (Sydney) Aug. 31/1 They are the new Australian playwrights and they are coming out of the woodwork everywhere. 1974 ‘M. Innes’ Appleby's Other Story iv. 30 At least we can tell this bloody wog to crawl back into the woodwork. 1977 C. McCullough Thorn Birds xii. 289 Funny how the men in my life all scuttle off into the woodwork, isn't it? 1979 ‘J. le Carré’ Smiley's People (1980) iii. 39 George Smiley, sometime Chief of the Secret Service..had one night come out of the woodwork to peer at some dead foreigner. 1984 Broadcast 7 Dec. 27/1 The imminence of a BBC licence increase application brings the advertising agencies out of the woodwork. †2. A grove or plantation artificially laid out. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > [noun] > estate or plantation plantation1626 penc1695 walk1697 woodwork1712 estate1772 grass pen1774 fazenda1825 the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > planted, cultivated, or valued high forest1477 planting1535 plantation1669 woodwork1712 wooding1788 1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 28 A large Wood~work cut into a Star, with a circular Alley. 3. a. Work done at cutting wood.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] > sawing or cutting sawingc1450 woodworka1861 a1861 T. Winthrop Life in Open Air (1863) xii. 94 We..chopped at the woods for fuel. Speaking for myself, I should say that our wood-work was ill done. b. Work done in wood, as carpentry. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] tree-workc1275 carpentry1377 wrightinga1500 wrightrya1500 carpenter-work?1553 carpentership1574 wright-work1630 chipping trade1792 carpentering1838 woodcraft1853 woodworking1872 axemanship1893 woodwork1913 1913 Board Educ. Rep. Pract. Work Secondary Sch. 84 Syllabus of wood-work for country or small isolated Schools. c. Forestry, work done in woods. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] woodwork1738 arboriculture1828 forestry1859 woodworking1872 sylviculture1880 silvics1907 agroforestry1934 tree farm1941 tree farming1942 1738 W. Ellis Timber-tree Improved I. i. 19 There is in my Neighbourhood a Man that..is often imployed in Wood Work. 1904 G. A. B. Dewar Glamour of Earth x. 243 Making a good and sure living..and filling an honourable post in wood work, to our surprise he took one day a strange step: flung up his work and migrated..to the town. 4. attributive. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [adjective] woodwork1959 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xvii. 362 The gardening master is commonly ‘Spuds’, the woodwork teacher is ‘Chips’. 1980 E. Blishen Nest of Teachers i. iv. 22 The woodwork master..insisted that I come with him to his woodwork centre. Derivatives ˈwoodˌworker n. (a) a worker in wood, one who makes things of wood; (b) a machine for working in wood (= joiner n. 3). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with other materials > [noun] > with wood woodworker1875 society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > woodworker > [noun] wrighta1200 woodworkman1659 woodwright1867 woodworker1875 woodman1879 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2813/2 Wood-worker, a machine-tool having various attachments and adjustments for different kinds of work. 1892 Labour Commission Gloss. s.v. In the coach-making trade wood workers consist of wheel-makers, body-makers.., and carriage-makers. ˈwoodˌworking n. the action of working in wood, the manufacture of wooden articles (also attributive); also, forestry. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] woodwork1738 arboriculture1828 forestry1859 woodworking1872 sylviculture1880 silvics1907 agroforestry1934 tree farm1941 tree farming1942 society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > constructing or working with wood > [noun] tree-workc1275 carpentry1377 wrightinga1500 wrightrya1500 carpenter-work?1553 carpentership1574 wright-work1630 chipping trade1792 carpentering1838 woodcraft1853 woodworking1872 axemanship1893 woodwork1913 1872 J. Richards (title) A Treatise on the construction..of Wood-working Machines. 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 418/1 Cabinet-file, a smooth, single~cut file, used in wood-working. 1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 71 We stroll through the woodworking-shops, where nothing is done by hand that can be done by machine. 1950 New Yorker 26 Aug. 71/1 Woodworking firms are making a candid twelve-per-cent profit. 1951 R. Firth Elements Social Organization ii. 51 Their introduced steel tools must have materially lightened the labour of wood~working and clearing of brush-wood in agriculture. † ˈwoodˌworkman n. Obsolete = woodworker n. (a). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > woodworker > [noun] wrighta1200 woodworkman1659 woodwright1867 woodworker1875 woodman1879 1659 in Marshall Edwinstow Reg. (1891) 32 Geo. Wightman..a woodworkman. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1650
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