A simple irrigation system, used on sloping land, in which water from a stream or spring is fed in at the top and allowed to trickle down over a number of artificial terraces.
chainwork
chainwork
noun
Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain.
checkrows
checkrows
verb
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of checkrow
checkwork
checkwork
noun
Anything made so as to form alternate squares like those of a checkerboard.
chokeweed
coachwork
coachwork
noun
The body of a motor vehicle (as opposed to the chassis).
gatchwork
gatchwork
noun
Decorative work made from gatch.
hackworks
hackworks
noun
plural of hackwork
hornwrack
hornwrack
noun
(zoology) A bryozoan of the genus Flustra.
kiungchow
kwangchow
outthwack
patchwork
patchwork
noun
(derogatory) A state of regulations whose constituents have an opaque scope of application because of their questionable delimitation with regard to each other.
(figurative) Any kind of creation that utilizes many different aspects to create one whole piece.
A work, such as a blanket, composed of many different colors and shapes, sewn together to make an interesting whole.
verb
To assemble from a variety of sources; to cobble together.
To create a patchwork from pieces of fabric.
pitchwork
pitchwork
noun
The work of a coal miner who is paid in a share of the mined material.
shockwave
shockwave
noun
Alternative spelling of shock wave
throwback
throwback
noun
(US, accounting) A practice to avoid untaxed nowhere income by instead taxing such income in the originating state for a given transaction.
(derogatory) A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient.
(slang, often attributive) A person or thing that evokes memories.
A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed.
A reversion to an earlier stage of development.
An atavism.
An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form.
Coordinate terms: nowhere income, throwout
watchwork
watchwork
noun
The work produced by watchmaking; the mechanical arrangements making up a watch (portable timepiece).
weighlock
weighlock
noun
A lock, as on a canal, in which boats are weighed and their tonnage is settled.
whipstock
whipstock
noun
(by extension) The driver of a carriage.
The stock, or rigid handle, of a whip.
windshock
witchwork
woodchuck
woodchuck
noun
A rodent of the family Sciuridae, belonging to the group of large ground squirrels known as marmots, Marmota monax.
woodshock
woodshock
noun
(US, Canada, dialects, obsolete) The groundhog, or its pelt.
(US, Canada, dialects, obsolete) The marten, or its pelt.
workbench
workbench
noun
A sturdy bench or table at which manual work is done by a carpenter, machinist, etc.
wretchock
wretchock
noun
A stunted or abortive cock; the smallest of a brood of domestic birds; any puny or imperfect creature.