handiwork
Work done by the hands.
Noun
- Work done by the hands.
- A handmade object; a handicraft.
- The Museum of Popular Arts showcases Portugal's finest handiworks.
- Work done personally.
- The street names are the handiwork of city planners.
- The firmament showeth his handiwork. - 1901, Bible (American Standard) - Psalms 19:1
- The result of personal efforts.
- Brunel's associations with the area have left a few examples of his handiwork or teaching in South Wales. - 1939 September, D. S. Barrie, “The Railways of South Wales”, in Railway Magazine, page 163:
- As a primary architect of the draft Constitution that emerged from Philadelphia in 1787, Madison substantially bore the burden of defending his handiwork in his home state. - 2004 Fall, Laurence Claus, “The...
Origin
From Middle English hondywerk, handiwerc, from Old English handġeweorc (“work done by hand, creation”), from hand (“hand”) + ġeweorc (“work”). Equivalent to hand + work, though it may now be reinterpreted as handy (“skilful”) + work. Compare Saterland Frisian Hondwierk, Dutch handwerk, German Handwerk.