Noun

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Work made from wool.

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, passage=Leatherwood Antiques will show Vienna bronzes, sailors’ woolwork pictures and a large cane stand from Switzerland with a carved wooden eagle on top. }}

Noun

(en-noun)

(countable) Something made from wood.

(uncountable) Wood product.

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(uncountable) Working with wood.

He does woodwork as a hobby.

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(only in plural, often in proper names) A workshop or factory devoted to making wood products.

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A place of concealment or obscurity.

Friends and relatives were coming out of the woodwork to celebrate his good fortune.

So when he wants to, he can just kind of blend into the woodwork .

(football) The frame of the goal, i.e. the goalpost or crossbar.

That goal was so close, it went in off the woodwork .

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, year=2012 , date=May 5 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 2-1 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Carroll thought he had equalised with his header against the bar with eight minutes left. Liverpool claimed the ball had cross the line and Chelsea were grateful for a miraculous intervention from Cech to turn his effort on to the woodwork .}}