Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In ship-building, short planks between the ports; all that part of a ship's side which lies between the chain-wales and the decks: so called because of its being the work most quickly completed in building the ship.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun All the submerged section of a vessel's planking.
- noun The planking between the spirketing and the clamps.
- noun The short planks between the portholes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical, archaic All of the
submerged section of a vessel'splanking . - noun nautical, archaic The planking between the
spirketing and theclamps . - noun nautical, archaic The short
planks between theportholes .
Etymologies
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quick + work
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The Neighbors came over towards the end of the Baking Blitz, helping me make quickwork of the last few batches, and then we set up an assembly line to get everything packed up.
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The Neighbors came over towards the end of the Baking Blitz, helping me make quickwork of the last few batches, and then we set up an assembly line to get everything packed up.
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The court certainly gave the merits of appellant’s argument quickwork.
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