Defn: An openwork frame, as of poles, filled with stones and sunk, to assist in forming a bar dyke, etc.
Defn: An openwork frame on which vessels are placed for examination, cleaning, and repairs.
Lace paper, paper with anopenwork design in imitation of lace.
Defn: A kind of openworkedging made of serpentine braid.
I've already had one of them before we left Vienna, 3 pairs of openwork stockings, Aunt Dora gave them to me, exquisitely fine, and my feet look so elegant in them.
Allie, eyeing with disfavor the pair of heavy platforms before her "I thought 'twould have openwork brass sides, like the elevators in Denver.
Illustration: Openwork dagobas] Only a few representative mosques have here been outlined architecturally (several others were visited), but an attempt has been made to give these their political and social significance and setting.
In the Kensington Museum there is a delicate openwork panel, three inches square, which with others, decorated the front of a fourteenth century chest in the church at Newport, Essex.
It's pretty to make an openwork design and let the lining show through.
Its delicate openwork surpassed any of my humble efforts.
The west front, of German design, suggests Cologne by its twin openwork spires (Fig.
The shield-back chair with wheat-ear and openwork decoration, and legs in which the lathe has been freely used, are characteristic types.
Two elbow state-chairs, withopenwork backs, were sold a little while ago for seven hundred and eighty guineas, and a set of six small chairs brought ninety-three guineas about the same time.
At length, however, a consignment of them was packed in openworkbaskets between layers of dried wild banana leaves and slung up on deck in openwork crates so as to have plenty of air.
The points interlap; and the cutting leaves odd-shaped openwork strips of steel for the scrap-heap.
Openwork embroidery made on a wool ground which is afterwards eaten away by acid.
Openwork silk net; made on the pillow as lace by young women of Tulle, France.
Then, in 1886, an openwork process was invented by which chemical action was employed to remove a woolen or silk foundation from the cotton-embroidered pattern, or a cotton foundation from a silk embroidery that had been worked on it.
A guipure lace or openwork embroidery, made by means of a hook in a fashion similar to crochet.
The openwork effects are produced either by the action of chemicals upon the foundation material, or by the use of the scissors.
A narrow openwork insertion, gimp or braiding, with parallel sides, used for joining two breadths of linen, instead of sewing them directly the one to the other.
One of the blonde laces, of the sort recognizable by their Alencon reseau ground and the flowers in light or openwork instead of solid.
Her openwork stockings were drawn so tight that the skin there also gleamed white.
She felt with extraordinary clearness that he was gazing as if spell-bound at the soft and regular rise and fall of her skin towards the coarse black openwork of her bodice.
The customers bought every day for twopence the right to stare through my openwork blouse, to touch my hand, to brush my knees with theirs.
You get a black openwork blouse, mind you, with short sleeves.
There was one of white and one of red, and they were put together in a rather long diamond shape with a row of openwork between every block.
Miss Cynthia came and plaited her beautiful hair in a marvellous openworksort of braid, and she had two white roses and a silver arrow in it.
And she had bought new stockings and new shoes; openwork stockings that showed her white feet through, and little, little shoes with immense steel buckles.
The two top buttons of the raincoat were missing, displaying a wealth of blue ribbon and openwork that none had suspected in her.
One thing I won't do, that is wear openwork frocks.
The lateness at which the ribbon and openwork began gave an interesting demonstration in feminine bone structure.
Their higher tiers formed an openwork of girders through which lifts and staircases ascended.
In some rare instances the vase is made with double sides, and the design is reserved in openwork by cutting through the outer casing.
Plate 14 shows a jardinière with openwork socket painted with cupids and flowers in panels reserved on a rose Pompadour ground.
There he stood still before a house, a narrow, simple house, like many others, with an openwork gable of curving lines, and became lost in contemplation of it.
The cheap lace looked like marbleopenwork artistically carved with a fine chisel.
His trousers were gray rayon, and his footgear wasopenwork sandals.
The openwork floor allowed the breezes to circulate through the whole house.
In the tops of six, she had knit in openwork her initials "M.
The tower consisted of a cast and wrought iron openwork structure having the columns deeply sunk into the rock.
Many examples of openwork steel and iron lighthouses exist.
The iron openwork pyramidal structure encloses a plated iron dwelling for the accommodation of the keepers.
A man seated in a little openworkcradle shot by from some point still higher than the little narrow bridge, rushing down a cable as swiftly almost as if he were falling.
The black gowns and straight white collars that she always wore, as a sort of professional garb, have vanished before a shirtwaist with an openwork neck and half sleeves, while the flesh exposed thereby is pink and wholesome.
In addition to the Moorish character of the engraving and openwork adorning the central rosette, inside the plates is a mark which shows its Valencian origin.
The outer hoop is encircled by three bands in relief, two being set with pearls and sapphires, and the middle and wider one designed with openwork rosettes, enriched with settings of the same stones.
It is not repousse, but is cut in openwork of intricate pattern in which the Swastika is the principal motif.
Fragment of ceinture of thin bronze, openwork with intricate Swastikas; Tumulus of Metzstetten, Wurtemburg.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "openwork" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
