Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In ship-building, short planks between the ports; all that part of a ship's side which lies between the chain-wales and the decks: so called because of its being the work most quickly completed in building the ship.
Wiktionary
- n. nautical, archaic All of the submerged section of a vessel's planking.
- n. nautical, archaic The planking between the spirketing and the clamps.
- n. nautical, archaic The short planks between the portholes.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. All the submerged section of a vessel's planking.
- n. The planking between the spirketing and the clamps.
- n. The short planks between the portholes.
Etymologies
- quick + work (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The Neighbors came over towards the end of the Baking Blitz, helping me make quickwork of the last few batches, and then we set up an assembly line to get everything packed up.”
“The court certainly gave the merits of appellant’s argument quickwork.”
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