Handiwork

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Handiwork \Hand"i*work`\ (-[i^]*w[^u]rk`), n. [OE. handiwerc,
     AS. handgeweorc; hand hand + geweorc work; prefix ge- +
     weorc. See {Work}.]
     Work done by the hands; hence, any work done personally.
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           The firmament showeth his handiwork.     --Ps. xix. 1.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  handiwork
       n : a work produced by hand labor [syn: {handicraft}, {handcraft},
            {handwork}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  137 Moby Thesaurus words for "handiwork":
     accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, acta, action,
     adventure, architecture, artifact, assembly, blow, brainchild,
     building, casting, child, coinage, composition, concoction,
     construction, conversion, coup, crafting, craftsmanship, creation,
     creature, crowning achievement, cultivation, dealings, deed,
     devising, dirty work, distillation, doing, doings, donkeywork,
     drudgery, effect, effort, elaboration, employment, end product,
     endeavor, enterprise, erection, essence, exploit, extract,
     extraction, fabrication, fag, fait accompli, fashioning, fatigue,
     feat, formation, forming, formulation, framing, fruit, gest, go,
     grind, growing, hand, handicraft, handwork, harvesting, industry,
     invention, issue, job, labor, lick, lick of work, machining,
     making, maneuver, manual labor, manufacture, manufacturing,
     masterpiece, masterwork, measure, milling, mining, mintage, moil,
     molding, move, new mintage, offspring, opera, operation, opus,
     opuscule, origination, outcome, outgrowth, overt act, passage,
     performance, prefabrication, preparation, proceeding, processing,
     producing, product, production, raising, rat race, refining,
     res gestae, result, scut work, shaping, slavery, smelting,
     spadework, step, stroke, stroke of work, stunt, sweat, task, thing,
     thing done, tiresome work, toil, tour de force, transaction,
     travail, treadmill, turn, undertaking, work, workmanship, works