Handiwork

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Noun

Handiwork (countable and uncountable; plural Handiworks)
  1. Work done by the hands; hence, any work done personally.
    • The firmament showeth his handiwork. - Psalms 19:1

Thesaurus

accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, acta, action, adventure, architecture, artifact, assembly, blow, brainchild, building, casting, child, coinage, composition, concoction, construction, conversion, coup, crafting, craftsmanship, creation, creature, crowning achievement, cultivation, dealings, deed, devising, dirty work, distillation, doing, doings, donkeywork, drudgery, effect, effort, elaboration, employment, end product, endeavor, enterprise, erection, essence, exploit, extract, extraction, fabrication, fag, fait accompli, fashioning, fatigue, feat, formation, forming, formulation, framing, fruit, gest, go, grind, growing, hand, handicraft, handwork, harvesting, industry, invention, issue, job, labor, lick, lick of work, machining, making, maneuver, manual labor, manufacture, manufacturing, masterpiece, masterwork, measure, milling, mining, mintage, moil, molding, move, new mintage, offspring, opera, operation, opus, opuscule, origination, outcome, outgrowth, overt act, passage, performance, prefabrication, preparation, proceeding, processing, producing, product, production, raising, rat race, refining, res gestae, result, scut work, shaping, slavery, smelting, spadework, step, stroke, stroke of work, stunt, sweat, task, thing, thing done, tiresome work, toil, tour de force, transaction, travail, treadmill, turn, undertaking, work, workmanship, works

Etymology

From Middle English handiwerc, from Old English handġeweorc (work done by hand, creation), from hand (hand) + ġeweorc (work). More at hand, work.

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