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activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically, physically labor. Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed. Milton.

Capable of being worked, or worth working; as, a workable mine; workable clay.

See Workyday.

A bag for holding implements or materials for work; especially, a reticule, or bag for holding needlework, and the like.

A basket for holding materials for needlework, or the like.

A bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter's shop.

A box for holding instruments or materials for work.

A day on which work is performed, as distinguished from Sunday, festivals, etc., a working day.

One who, or that which, works; a laborer; a performer; as, a worker in brass. Professors of holiness, but workers of iniquity. Shak.

One engaged in the same work with another; a companion in work.

People that labor.

Full of work; diligent. [R.]

A house where any manufacture is carried on; a workshop.

a & n. from Work. The word must cousin be to the working. Chaucer. Working beam. See Beam, n. 10. -- Working class, the class of people who are engaged in manual labor, or are dependent upon it for support; laborers; operatives; -- chiefly used in the plural. -- Working day. See under Day, n. -- Working drawing, a d…

Pertaining to, or characteristic of, working days, or workdays; everyday; hence, plodding; hard-working. O, how full of briers in this working-day world. Shak.

A laboring man; a man who earns his daily support by manual labor.

Without work; not laboring; as, many people were still workless.

A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker.

Becoming a workman, especially a skillful one; skillful; well performed.

Becoming a skillful workman; skillful; well performed; workmanlike.