Meaning

(countable, uncountable) Techniques of looping or linking pieces of metal or another materials in the manner of a chain; objects made using these techniques..

Definitions by Sense

1. (countable, uncountable) Techniques of looping or linking pieces of metal or another materials in the manner of a chain; objects made using these techniques.
2. (countable, dated) A system in which each element is linked to two others in the manner of a chain; a series of interconnected things.
3. (uncountable, surveying, dated) The technique of surveying by measuring distances with a chain.

Example Sentences

and wreathes of chaine worke, for the chapiters which were vpon the top of the pillars:

For one of the Bracelets made of Chain-work, we had as much Provision of several Sorts, as would fairly have been worth in England, Fifteen or Sixteen Pounds;

[…] she assented coldly, without adding an unnecessary word, some trivial chain-work which she had in her hands enabling her to avoid looking at Lydgate higher than his chin.

[…] she had a chain-work of coins encircling her hair, and falling completely round her face to her bosom,

The bag was made of gold chain-work; there were more than four thousand lire in it.

The coherence and interdependency in the total chainwork of evidence, and the independent strength of each particular link, is little known to the public.

[…] the great object to be accomplished is to bring the immense chainwork of Northern railroads into closer communication with the Southern system,

There are frightful energies beneath that adamantine surface—energies which have been confined by a rude, imperfectly organized system of force; a chain-work of abuses roughly welded together as occasion required.

Word Forms

• chainworks
• chain work
• chain-work

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Use chainwork when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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