handwork

== English == === Etymology === From Middle English hondwerk, from Old English handweorc (“work done by hand; handiwork”), from Proto-Germanic *handuwerką; equivalent to hand +‎ work. Cognate with Dutch handwerk, German Handwerk, Swedish hantverk. === Pronunciation === === Noun === handwork (countable and uncountable, plural handworks) Work done by the hands, as opposed to by machine. ==== Synonyms ==== handiwork ==== Coordinate terms ==== manual labor (sometimes synonymous, but sometimes strenuous and unskilled rather than intricate and skilled) ==== Translations ==== === Verb === handwork (third-person singular simple present handworks, present participle handworking, simple past and past participle handworked) (transitive) To work (materials) by hand, without the use of a machine.