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Definition of Handworks
1. handwork [n] - See also: handwork
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handworks
Literary usage of Handworks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1893)
"The following letter from the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, in
relation to the Keating-Poinsett collection of Aztec handworks deposited by ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1887)
"... a many fetches (used as a verb) sooner than handworks. FETTLE, s.—Order,
condition. The place is in strange good fettle. What sort of fettle is it in ? ..."
3. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1861)
"... 5th, a conduct certificate ; 6th, a service book ; 7th, а wanderbuch, (this
refers to the compulsory travels of their handworks ..."
4. American Journal of Education (1856)
"it is to such second-handworks that the preference is often given. And from this
it arises that in learning to draw, one learns to regard only a ..."
5. The Christian Remembrancer by William Scott (1844)
"There were but few monasteries in Germany that could not show one or more of the
handworks of Sintram, the " beautiful scribe." So prodigious is the number ..."
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