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HANDIWORK

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A work produced by hand labor

Synonyms:

handcraft; handicraft; handiwork; handwork

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("handiwork" is a kind of...):

piece of work; work (a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing)

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 Context examples: 

For a long time there was a lull in the 'mud-pie' business, and she devoted herself to the finest pen-and-ink drawing, in which she showed such taste and skill that her graceful handiwork proved both pleasant and profitable.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It was strange there, in the very depths of the town, with ten miles of man’s handiwork on every side of us, to feel the iron grip of Nature, and to be conscious that to the huge elemental forces all London was no more than the molehills that dot the fields.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)