knackery

American  

[nak-uh-ree] / ˈnæk ə ri /

noun

British.

1. rendering works.

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Etymology

Origin of knackery

First recorded in 1865–70; knack(er) + -ery

Example Sentences

I desperately wished to make everything else just stop, so Julia Bishop and I could stay there, wrapped up in each other forever—so we could let everything else on this world slide endlessly past us into the big black knackery of our universe.

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Rumors spread like a diaspora of atoms in the knackery of the universe, always getting rendered into something else and something else.

From Literature

The Leonid meteor shower is coming soon, as the knackery renders comet Tempel-Tuttle into something else, and something else again.

From Literature

Atoms will be scattered, and the knackery never shuts down.

From Literature

Because this is what we saw: In the dark, walking along the gravel shoulder of a highway somewhere outside a place called Rolla, Missouri, was a man wearing a robe that glinted and shimmered in all the reflected light cast down onto the road bed by stars and moon, the knackery of the universe.

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