outwork
Archaic. to outdo in workmanship.
a minor defense built or established outside the principal fortification limits.
Origin of outwork
1Other words from outwork
- outworker, noun
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How to use outwork in a sentence
Despotism cannot fetter thought—that is free everywhere—but it can and does restrain its outworking into practical action.
Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa | Joel Tyler Headley and William Fletcher JohnsonIn such feeble tendencies, be it known, such outworking of desire to reproduce life, lies the basis of all dramatic art.
Sister Carrie | Theodore DreiserThe outworking of the coup de main was a triumph for the old borderer's shrewd generalship.
The Master of Appleby | Francis LyndeHe sees the Rebellion as it is,—the outbreak and outworking of that spirit which makes hell horrible.
In effect, the outworking of it meant a strictly defensive attitude in Africa, and in the north a naval siege of Germany.
The Message | Alec John Dawson
British Dictionary definitions for outwork
(often plural) defences which lie outside main defensive works
work performed away from the factory, office, etc, by which it has been commissioned
to work better, harder, etc, than
to work out to completion
Derived forms of outwork
- outworker, noun
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