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Noun. The goalposts in football (soccer).
The history teacher, Piggy Brown, an inadequate child trapped in a paedophile's body, clutched a British Airways satchel everywhere he went. After years of merciless baiting, the straw that broke Piggy's back was when the fourth year managed to nick the satchel and hung it from the roof on a rope, swinging it back and forth outside the windows of Piggy's classroom. He started foaming at the mouth, ran out and didn't come back. Poor bastard had a nervous breakdown, we laughed 'til we crapped our pants. (ed: Ah the innocence of childhood. In my school they grabbed one kid in the woodwork class, and after heating up a knife tried to brand him with his nickname 'orphan'. Sadistic bastards kids are!)
Soogee−moogee is nautical slang for a cleaning fluid made with caustic soda used for cleaning woodwork and paintwork.
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Werewolf. Sometimes mistaken for Woodworking.
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The lighter woodwork in the interior of a building; especially, that used around openings, generally in the form of a molded architrave, to protect the plastering at those points.
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A sharp angle in any surface of wainscoting or other woodwork; the upright sides which flank any paneled work, as the sides of windows, where the jamb makes an elbow with the window back.
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To construct by fitting and uniting the several parts of the skeleton of any structure; specifically, in woodwork, to put together by cutting parts of one member to fit parts of another. See Dovetail, Halve, v. t., Miter, Tenon, Tooth, Tusk, Scarf, and Splice.
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A wooden block, of the size of a brick, built into a wall, as a hold for the nails of woodwork.
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A board, or other woodwork, carried round the walls of a room and touching the floor, to form a base and protect the plastering; -- also called washboard (in England), mopboard, and scrubboard.
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A kind of mosaic in woodwork, much employed in Italy in the fifteenth century and later, in which scrolls and arabesques, and sometimes architectural scenes, landscapes, fruits, flowers, and the like, were produced by inlaying pieces of wood of different colors and shades into panels usually of walnut wood.
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The ornament of woodwork upon the gable of a house, used extensively in the 15th century. It was generally suspended from the edge of the projecting roof (see Verge, n., 4), and in position parallel to the gable wall. Called also bargeboard.
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A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death.
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Decorative woodwork in which tortoise shell, yellow metal, white metal, etc., are inlaid, forming scrolls, cartouches, etc.
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A frame of woodwork across a beach to accumulate and retain shingle.
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Work made of wood; that part of any structure which is wrought of wood.
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One whose occupation is to construct articles by joining pieces of wood; a mechanic who does the woodwork (as doors, stairs, etc.) necessary for the finishing of buildings.
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To cause to sink even with or below the surface; as, to countersink a screw or bolt into woodwork.
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A large West Indian cockroach (Blatta gigantea) which drums on woodwork, as a sexual call.
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Having a lap joint, or lap joints, as many kinds of woodwork and metal work.
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