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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Objects made of or work done in wood, especially wooden interior fittings in a house, as moldings, doors, staircases, or windowsills.
  • idiom (out of the woodwork) Out of obscurity or a place of seclusion.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Objects, or parts of objects, made of wood; that which is produced by the carpenters' or joiners' art: generally applied to details rather than to complete structures: as, the woodwork of a house (that is, the inner fittings, etc.).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Work made of wood; that part of any structure which is wrought of wood.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun countable Something made from wood.
  • noun uncountable Wood product.
  • noun uncountable Working with wood.
  • noun A workshop or factory devoted to making wood products.
  • noun A place of concealment or obscurity.
  • noun soccer The frame of the goal, i.e. the goalpost or crossbar.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun work made of wood; especially moldings or stairways or furniture
  • noun the craft of a carpenter: making things out of wood

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wood +‎ work

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