woodwork.

1. The wooden parts of a building or object, especially fitted or finished surfaces.

2. The craft or activity of shaping and joining wood to make objects.

3. The posts and crossbar of a goal in sports such as football.

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Words that belong together

• interior woodwork
• painted woodwork

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The interior woodwork still smelled of fresh paint.

Usage notes

Primary category: architecture / spatial description. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: setting, description. Commonness: moderately common.