Definitions
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- noun art
Crosshatching ; ornamentation using acrosshatch pattern - noun uncountable, shipping The apparatus around the
hatches of a vessel, particularly thecargo hatch
Etymologies
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hatch + work
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Examples
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It was The Dissolver, a card whose surface was made up of a close-grained tracery, or hatchwork in which images formed according to how it was held.
The Grand Wheel Bayley, Barrington J. 1977
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Along its sides were etchings, lines and hatchwork.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Along its sides were etchings, lines and hatchwork.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Meanwhile Durer's "Female Nude with a Staff" is carved by his typical hatchwork, black lines slicing across every fold on her skin.
PORT Jascha Owens 2009
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