Word Meanings - WEATHERLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Working, or able to sail, close to the wind; as, a weatherly ship. Cooper.

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• COOPERY
  Relating to a cooper; coopered. Coopery vessels made of wood. Holland.
• CLOSEHANDED
  Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.
• WORKMANSHIP
  1. The art or skill of a workman; the execution or manner of making anything. Due reward For her praiseworthy workmanship to yield. Spenser. Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown . . . Where most may wonder at the workmanship. Milton. 2. That
• WORKBAG
  A bag for holding implements or materials for work; especially, a reticule, or bag for holding needlework, and the like.
• WORKBENCH
  A bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter's shop.
• CLOSEFISTED
  Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.
• WORKDAY
  A day on which work is performed, as distinguished from Sunday, festivals, etc., a working day.
• WORKSHOP
  A shop where any manufacture or handiwork is carried on.
• CLOSEN
  To make close.
• COOPERING
  Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks, etc.; the business of a cooper.
• CLOSER
  The last stone in a horizontal course, if of a less size than the others, or a piece of brick finishing a course. Gwilt. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, closes; specifically, a boot closer. See under Boot. 2. A finisher; that which finishes
• COOPERATOR
  One who labors jointly with others to promote the same end. "Coöperators with the truth." Boyle.
• CLOSE-FIGHTS
  Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters.
• CLOSEHAULED
  Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel.
• WORK
  1. To labor or operate upon; to give exertion and effort to; to prepare for use, or to utilize, by labor. He could have told them of two or three gold mines, and a silver mine, and given the reason why they forbare to work them at that time. Sir
• CLOSE-BODIED
  Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment. Ayliffe.
• WORKFELLOW
  One engaged in the same work with another; a companion in work.
• WORKSHIP
  Workmanship.
• WORKYDAY
  A week day or working day, as distinguished from Sunday or a Prithee, tell her but a workyday fortune. Shak.
• WORKMAN
  1. A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker. 2. Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer.
• ROCKWORK
  Stonework in which the surface is left broken and rough.
• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• JOURNEYWORK
  Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman at his trade.
• FRETWORK
  Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Heuce, any minute play of light andshade, dark and light, or the like. Banqueting on the turf in the fretwork of shade and sunshine.
• RUBBLEWORK
  Masonry constructed of unsquared stones that are irregular in size and shape.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
• CUTWORK
  An ancient term for embroidery, esp. applied to the earliest form of lace, or to that early embroidery on linen and the like, from which the manufacture of lace was developed.
• BOBBINWORK
  Work woven with bobbins.
• STOCKWORK
  A system of working in ore, etc., when it lies not in strata or veins, but in solid masses, so as to be worked in chambers or stories.
• LAPWORK
  Work in which one part laps over another. Grew.
• CHAINWORK
  Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain stitch work.
• PANELWORK
  Wainscoting.
• BOOKWORK
  1. Work done upon a book or books , in distinction from newspaper or job work. 2. Study; application to books.
• BANTAM WORK
  Carved and painted work in imitation of Japan ware.