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Webster 1913 Edition


Outwork

Out-work′

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Verb.
T.
To exceed in working; to work more or faster than.

Out′workˊ

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Noun.
(Fort.)
A minor defense constructed beyond the main body of a work, as a ravelin, lunette, hornwork, etc.
Wilhelm.

Webster 1828 Edition


Outwork

OUT'WORK

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Noun.
The part of a fortification most remote from the main fortress or citadel.

Definition 2024


outwork

outwork

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Verb

outwork (third-person singular simple present outworks, present participle outworking, simple past and past participle outworked)

  1. (rare) To work out to a finish; to complete.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.vii:
      For now three dayes of men were full outwrought, / Since he this hardie enterprize began [...].
  2. To work faster or harder than.

Noun

outwork (plural outworks)

  1. (architecture) A minor, subsidiary fortification built beyond the main limits of fortification.

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