HANDIWORK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does handiwork mean? 

• HANDIWORK (noun)
  The noun HANDIWORK has 1 sense:

1. a work produced by hand labor

  Familiarity information: HANDIWORK used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HANDIWORK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A work produced by hand labor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

handcraft; handicraft; handiwork; handwork

Hypernyms ("handiwork" is a kind of...):

piece of work; work (a product produced or accomplished through the effort or activity or agency of a person or thing)

 Context examples 

I was tormented by the contrast between my idea and my handiwork: in each case I had imagined something which I was quite powerless to realise.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

There was no sound of man, no mark of the handiwork of man.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Knowing his vindictive nature, I was perfectly certain that he would come to look upon his handiwork.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Aye!” cried Rosa, smiting herself passionately on the breast, “look at me! Moan, and groan, and look at me! Look here!” striking the scar, “at your dead child's handiwork!”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

All my handiwork was strong, none of it beautiful; but I knew that it would work, and I felt myself a man of power as I looked at it.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The hands of society are harsh, and this man was a striking sample of its handiwork.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I read it aloud to the critical bacteriologist with some pride in my handiwork.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“North of Humber there is no man who would not know the handiwork of Devil Douglas, the black Lord James.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This change in him was her handiwork, and she was proud of it and fired with ambition further to help him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Yes, Watson, we have come upon the handiwork of a very remarkable individual.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)