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metalworking

[ met-l-wur-king ]

noun

  1. the act or technique of making metal objects.


metalworking

/ ˈmɛtəlˌwɜːkɪŋ /

noun

  1. the processing of metal to change its shape, size, etc, as by rolling, forging, etc, or by making metal articles
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈmetalˌworker, noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of metalworking1

First recorded in 1880–85; metal + working
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Example Sentences

Excavations in what’s now northeastern Sweden uncovered ancient furnaces and fire pits that hunter-gatherers used for metalworking.

There’s woodworking equipment, metalworking equipment, hammers, wrenches, and dozens of boxes just for storing bike parts.

This trade network could have helped transmit new ideas and technologies, such as metalworking, to the Arctic, and may have facilitated Siberian society’s transition from foraging to reindeer herding in the last 2,000 years.

Metalworking, which is a biggie in Birmingham [several members worked for British Steel before joining], was even worse.

But heavy metalworking industry was always considered more important than food and clothing.

Our loom is clumsy because, of course, our metalworking is not far advanced.

In early Christian Ireland metalworking was brought to a pitch rarely equalled and never excelled.

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