Handiwork
['hændɪwɜːk] or ['hændɪ'wɝk]
Definition
(n.) Work done by the hands; hence, any work done personally.
Checker: Phyllis
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Hand, workmanship, manufacture.
Editor: Nicolas
Definition
n. work done by the hands performance generally: work of skill or wisdom: creation.
Typist: Winfred
Examples
- Whose handiwork is this? Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Nature's handiwork never was disguised with such extraordinary artificial carving, as the man had overlaid his countenance with in one moment. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Lily looked down ruefully at her handiwork. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Yes, Watson, we have come upon the handiwork of a very remarkable individual. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- I was tormented by the contrast between my idea and my handiwork: in each case I had imagined something which I was quite powerless to realise. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- That was your handiwork, Giles, I understand. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- But as if to repress such vainglorious thoughts, there stood in the transept of the building, surrounded by and contrasting with the handiworks of man, one of the simplest productions of Nature. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
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