metalwork

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noun

Objects made of metal.

“The local blacksmith made all the metalwork for this reconstructed old house.”

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metalworking
OriginEnglish metal ← Middle English metal ← Old French meta →
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Meanings

nounmetalwork (countable and uncountable, plural metalworks)

plural metalworks

  1. countableuncountableObjects made of metal.

    The local blacksmith made all the metalwork for this reconstructed old house.

    1 more example

    Metalwork is either silver or gold anodised aluminium, the latter being used experimentally in one of the six schemes.

    1964 July, “XP64: New Standard Carriage Project”, in Modern Railways, page 8
  2. countableuncountableThe act of shaping metal, metalworking.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounthe activity of making things out of metal in a skillful manner

Similar
metalworking
Broader
formationshaping
Also see
metalworkingshop

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Latinmetallum
  2. Old Frenchmeta
  3. Middle Englishmetal
  4. Englishmetal
  5. Englishmetalwork

From metal + -work.

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Cite this entry
APA

metalwork. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metalwork

MLA

“metalwork.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metalwork. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “metalwork,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/metalwork.

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