Word Meanings - HOUSEWORK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The work belonging to housekeeping; especially, kitchen work, sweeping, scrubbing, bed making, and the like.

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• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• SCRUBBY
  Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as, a scrubby cur. "Dense, scrubby woods." Duke of Argull.
• KITCHEN MIDDENS
  Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada
• SCRUBBER
  A gas washer. See under Gas. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, scrubs; esp., a brush used in scrubbing.
• SCRUBBED
  Dwarfed or stunted; scrubby.
• SWEEPAGE
  The crop of hay got in a meadow.
• KITCHEN
  coquina, equiv. to culina a kitchen, fr. coquinus pertaining to cooking, fr. coquere to cook. See Cook to prepare food, and cf. 1. A cookroom; the room of a house appropriated to cookery. Cool was his kitchen, though his brains were hot. Dryden.
• MAKE
  A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer.
• MAKED
  Made. Chaucer.
• MAKE-UP
  The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward.
• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• HOUSEKEEPER
  1. One who occupies a house with his family; a householder; the master or mistress of a family. Locke. 2. One who does, or oversees, the work of keeping house; as, his wife is a good housekeeper; often, a woman hired to superintend the servants
• SWEEPING
  Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping
• SCRUBBOARD
  A baseboard; a mopboard.
• KITCHEN-RY
  The body of servants employed in the kitchen. Holland.
• BELONG
  attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. Note: 1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain. 2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. A desert place
• SWEEP-SAW
  A bow-saw.
• SWEEPY
  Moving with a sweeping motion. The branches bend before their sweepy away. Dryden.
• MAKEWEIGHT
  That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• ENSWEEP
  To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
• SAILMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make or repair sails. -- Sail"mak`ing, n.
• WIDOW-MAKER
  One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak.
• MATCHMAKER
  1. One who makes matches for burning or kinding. 2. One who tries to bring about marriages.
• HAYMAKING
  The operation or work of cutting grass and curing it for hay.
• MERRYMAKING
  Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
• GLASS MAKER; GLASSMAKER
  One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n.
• PEASWEEP
  The pewit, or lapwing. The greenfinch.
• VLISSMAKI
  The diadem indris. See Indris.