metalwork

English

Etymology

From metal +‎ work.

Noun

metalwork (countable and uncountable, plural metalworks)

1. Objects made of metal.

   The local blacksmith made all the metalwork for this reconstructed old house.

   • 1964 July, “XP64: New Standard Carriage Project”, in Modern Railways, page 8:

     Metalwork is either silver or gold anodised aluminium, the latter being used experimentally in one of the six schemes.

2. The act of shaping metal, metalworking.

References

• “metalwork”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.