interwork

To work (two or more things) into and through each other.

Verb

  1. To work (two or more things) into and through each other.
    • They had (saith he) certaine armes so curiously enter-wrought as they seemed to be made like feathers[…]. - 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 9, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […]...
  2. To interact.
    • Two three-car units have been stationed at Tondu for the new workings and will inter-work with others from Treherbert. - 1963 January, “News and comment”, in Modern Railways, page 10:

Origin

From inter- + work.

Forms

interworks interworking interworked interwrought enterwork

Related

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