doors, window sashes, moldings, etc. made in a planing mill
2.
work done in a mill
Derived forms
millworker (ˈmillˌworker)
noun
millwork in American English
(ˈmɪlˌwɜːrk)
noun
1.
ready-made carpentry work from a mill
2.
work done in a mill
3.
profiled or finished woodwork, as moldings or lattices
Also: mill work
Word origin
[1760–70; mill1 + work]This word is first recorded in the period 1760–70. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: genre, icing, letdown, plunk, provincialism
Examples of 'millwork' in a sentence
millwork
Steel fixtures co-exist with smoothly finished walnut millwork and a concrete floor.