worked

Designed or executed in a particular manner or to a particular degree.

Adjective

  1. Designed or executed in a particular manner or to a particular degree.
    • A heavy rich loam is, perhaps, the best of any; but carse lands, and well worked and manured clay soils, are also very suitable. - 1811, William Singers, “On the Varieties of Wheat, Barley, Oats, Peas, and Beans”, in...
  2. Wrought.
    • ...the light and elastic spear, made of the India bamboo, and tipped with the most perfectly worked steel, which he now held in his hand... - 1832, James Justinian Morier, Zorhab the Hostage, page 39:

    1. Processed in a particular way; prepared via labour.

    2. Decorated or embellished; embroidered.

      • ...and many of them, at least when young, wear only a worked piece of linen over their head. - 1803, William Alexander, The Costume of the Russian Empire, page 84:
  3. Prepared so as to demonstrate the steps required.
    • Place each error opposite its supposed number, as in the worked example. - 1835, R.H. Nicholls, Francis Walkingame, Taplin's Improved Edition of Walkingame's Tutor's Assistant, page 108:

Forms

ywrought

Derived

frost-worked worked up handworked hand-worked user-worked

Verb

  1. simple past and past participle of work

Forms

ywrought