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Openwork :: Openwork (n.) Anything so constructed or manufactured (in needlework, carpentry, metal work, etc.) as to show openings through its substance; work that is perforated or pierced..

Scrim :: Scrim (n.) A kind of light cotton or linen fabric, often woven in openwork patterns, -- used for curtains, etc,; -- called also India scrim..

Gabion :: Gabion (n.) An openwork frame, as of poles, filled with stones and sunk, to assist in forming a bar dyke, etc., as in harbor improvement..

Gridiron :: Gridiron (n.) An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs..

Fretwork :: Fretwork (n.) Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute play of light and shade, dark and light, or the like..

Wirework :: Wirework (n.) Work, especially openwork, formed of wires..

Cage :: Cage (n.) A box or inclosure, wholly or partly of openwork, in wood or metal, used for confining birds or other animals..

Brattishing :: Brattishing (n.) Carved openwork, as of a shrine, battlement, or parapet..

Rickrack :: Rickrack (n.) A kind of openwork edging made of serpentine braid.

Straining :: Strainer (n.) That through which any liquid is passed for purification or to separate it from solid matter; anything, as a screen or a cloth, used to strain a liquid; a device of the character of a sieve or of a filter; specifically, an openwork or perforated screen, as for the end of the suction pipe of a pump, to prevent large solid bodies from entering with a liquid..

Openwork :: Openwork (n.) A quarry; an open cut.

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