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woodwork
English
Etymology
From Middle English woodewerk (“carpentry”), equivalent to wood +? work.
Noun
woodwork (usually uncountable, plural woodworks)
- (countable) Something made from wood.
- (uncountable) Wood product.
- (uncountable) Working with wood.
- Synonym: woodworking
- (only in plural, often in proper names) A workshop or factory devoted to making wood products.
- A place of concealment or obscurity.
- (soccer, rugby) The frame of the goal, i.e. the goalpost or crossbar.
Derived terms
- come out of the woodwork
Translations
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woodworm
English
Wikispecies
Etymology
wood +? worm
Noun
woodworm (countable and uncountable, plural woodworms)
- Any of many beetle larvae that bore into wood.
- 1599, Simon Harward, “A Displaying of the wilfull deuises of wicked and vaine worldlings” in Three Sermons, London: Richard Johns,[1]
- […] Chrisostome doth compaire enuie to the wood worm which though it doe breede in the tymber, yet it doth consume & waste the tymber, as enuie springing of the heart doth putrifie and vtterly eat vp the heart.
- 1872, Robert Louis Stevenson, letter to Mrs. Thomas Stevenson dated July 29, 1872, in Sidney Colvin (editor), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, New York: Scribner, 1917, Volume I, p. 45,[2]
- There was only one contretemps during the whole interview—the arrival of another visitor, in the shape (surely) the last of God’s creatures, a wood-worm of the most unnatural and hideous appearance, with one great striped horn stucking out of his nose like a boltsprit. If there are many wood-worms in Germany, I shall come home.
- 1992, Colm Tóibín, The Heather Blazing Penguin, 1994, Chapter Two, p. 25,[3]
- His father met a man who said that he had the figure from a ship which went aground near Blackwater Head. It would have to be treated for woodworm, he said.
- Anobium punctatum
- 1599, Simon Harward, “A Displaying of the wilfull deuises of wicked and vaine worldlings” in Three Sermons, London: Richard Johns,[1]
- A shipworm, a worm-like mollusk in the family Teredinidae that feeds on wood underwater in saltwater.
Synonyms
- (any wood-boring beetle larvae): deathwatch beetle
- (Anobium punctatum): furniture beetle
Translations
Anagrams
- Wormwood, wormwood
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