OUTWORK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does outwork mean? 

• OUTWORK (noun)
  The noun OUTWORK has 1 sense:

1. subsidiary defensive structure lying outside the main fortified area

  Familiarity information: OUTWORK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OUTWORK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Subsidiary defensive structure lying outside the main fortified area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Context example:

the outworks of the castle

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

defence; defense; defensive structure (a structure used to defend against attack)

 Context examples 

He was a good workman himself, quick and deft, and it had always been a point of pride with him that no man should do any of his work for him or outwork him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)