ground-work
English
Noun
ground-work (countable and uncountable, plural ground-works)
- Alternative spelling of groundwork
- 1837, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ethel Churchill, volume 3, page 198:
- "And I will tell you an idea that has struck me," replied he, "as a good ground-work for a drama. I do not know how it is, but I need more encouragement than I used to do, to begin any thing new. Now, talking over a plan, is a sort of beginning; and, careless as you are, you have an intuitive judgment."