interwork
English
Alternative forms
- enterwork [17th c.]
Etymology
From inter- + work.
Verb
interwork (third-person singular simple present interworks, present participle interworking, simple past and past participle interworked or interwrought)
- (transitive) To work (two or more things) into and through each other.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 9, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- They had (saith he) certaine armes so curiously enter-wrought as they seemed to be made like feathers […].
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- (intransitive) To interact.
Related terms
- interworking