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Definition of Journeywork
1. n. Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman at his trade.
Definition of Journeywork
1. Noun. (obsolete) Work done by the day. ¹
2. Noun. Work done by a journeyman at his trade. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Journeywork
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Journeywork
Literary usage of Journeywork
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1899)
"True it is that they are only what Carlyle himself would have described as '
honest journeywork '; but that he was not ashamed of honest journeywork appears ..."
2. London Encyclopaedia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"Did no committee sit, where he Might cut out journeywork for thee 7 And set thee
a task with subornation, To stitch up sale and sequestration. ..."
3. Publications (1846)
"... that can devour three or four churches, as many lectures, beside four shillings
a day for journeywork. His name is Ass in the head, and LV in the tail. ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"Throughout the 18th century journeywork and apprenticeship were general. Wages,
compared with the cost of living, were meagre, and the day's work, ..."
5. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"... the stage does not Such whose vocation only is to song; At most to prologue,
when, for want of belong, time, Poets take in for journeywork in rhyme. ..."
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