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Techniques of looping or linking pieces of metal or another materials in the manner of a chain; objects made using these techniques.
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and wreathes of chaine worke, for the chapiters which were vpon the top of the pillars:
For one of the Bracelets made of Chain-work, we had as much Provision of several Sorts, as would fairly have been worth in England, Fifteen or Sixteen Pounds;
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[…] she assented coldly, without adding an unnecessary word, some trivial chain-work which she had in her hands enabling her to avoid looking at Lydgate higher than his chin.
[…] she had a chain-work of coins encircling her hair, and falling completely round her face to her bosom,
The bag was made of gold chain-work; there were more than four thousand lire in it.
A system in which each element is linked to two others in the manner of a chain; a series of interconnected things.
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The coherence and interdependency in the total chainwork of evidence, and the independent strength of each particular link, is little known to the public.
[…] the great object to be accomplished is to bring the immense chainwork of Northern railroads into closer communication with the Southern system,
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There are frightful energies beneath that adamantine surface—energies which have been confined by a rude, imperfectly organized system of force; a chain-work of abuses roughly welded together as occasion required.
A chainwork of suggestions followed. Everybody had an idea, and the ideas became more and more involved […]
The technique of surveying by measuring distances with a chain.
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If all this agrees with the field book measurements, the chain work has been correctly done in the field and correctly plotted in the office.
It seems incredible that chain work as here described should have played an important part in making national maps and plans.
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Once in Nicaragua, the young man soon began assisting Peary with “chain work” and other tasks relating to surveying.