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handiwork noun [ ˈhandɪwəːk ]

• something that one has made or done.
• "the dressmakers stood back to survey their handiwork"
Similar: creation, product, work, achievement, design, doing, action, result, handicraft, craft, craftwork,
• making things by hand, considered as a subject of instruction.
• "they taught young women reading, writing, and handiwork"
Origin: Old English handgeweorc, from hand + geweorc ‘something made’, interpreted in the 16th century as handy + work .


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