open-work

See also: openwork

English

Noun

open-work (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of openwork.
    • 1918, James George Frazer, Folk-Lore In The Old Testament, volume 1, page 263:
      To keep him out of mischief Sigu set the animal to fetch water from the stream in a basket of open-work, calculating that the task would occupy his misdirected energies for some time to come.
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