WOODWORK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does woodwork mean? 

• WOODWORK (noun)
  The noun WOODWORK has 2 senses:

1. work made of wood; especially moldings or stairways or furniture

2. the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood

  Familiarity information: WOODWORK used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOODWORK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Work made of wood; especially moldings or stairways or furniture

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("woodwork" 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)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "woodwork"):

cabinetwork (woodwork finished by hand by a cabinetmaker)

joinery (fine woodwork done by a joiner)

millwork (woodwork that has been machined at a mill)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

carpentry; woodwork; woodworking

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

craft; trade (the skilled practice of a practical occupation)

Domain member category:

stud (provide with or construct with studs)

dado (cut a dado into or fit into a dado)

dado (provide with a dado)

articulate; joint (provide with a joint)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "woodwork"):

cabinetry; cabinetwork (the craft of making furniture (especially furniture of high quality))

cabinetmaking; joinery (the craft of a joiner)

 Context examples 

Well, you will be surprised to hear that there is no stain on the white woodwork to correspond.

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

He was pointing to faint discolorations along the woodwork of the window.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The yellow cottage, standing back a little from the road, with its upper story bulging forward and a crisscross of black woodwork let into the plaster, is the one in which we lived.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It had been so forcibly driven against the jamb that part of the woodwork was splintered.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Then suddenly came a low guggling, gargling sound, and a brisk drumming upon woodwork.

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

Clinging to the woodwork, staggering with the roll of the ship, and aided by the cook, I managed to slip into a rough woollen undershirt.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The woodwork was cut, and the scratches showed white through the paint, as if they had been that instant done.

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

An endless creaking was going on all about me, the woodwork and the fittings groaning and squeaking and complaining in a thousand keys.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I need not tell you how, one day, when preparing the chambers for the guests, an accidental pressure upon part of the fittings caused a panel to gape in the woodwork, and showed me a narrow opening in the wall.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In the middle of the floor of the empty room was huddled the figure of an enormous man, his clean-shaven, swarthy face grotesquely horrible in its contortion and his head encircled by a ghastly crimson halo of blood, lying in a broad wet circle upon the white woodwork.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)