jewelry

jewelry is the US standard spelling of jewellery.

Verb

jewelry (third-person singular simple present jewelries, present participle jewelrying, simple past and past participle jewelried)

(intransitive, rare) To make jewelry.
- He was using all the arts of barbering, livery stabling, jewelrying, oratorying, and tailoring.1897 August 10, Ephraim Cutter, “Fatty Ills and Their Masquerades”, in The Medical Age, volume 15, number 15
- The members of this family have an honest and honorable record in their dealings and relations in every way, preferring the peaceful calling of farming, poultrying, and jewelrying; with a home of many comforts and enjoyments.1991, Hugh M. Addington, History of the Family of Addington in the United States and England, page 37
(intransitive, rare) To adorn with jewelry or make into jewelry.
- The large UNESCO hall, where she exhibited, held them all in full space and light — the early paintings, the hand-woven textures and colors in wool, the brilliance of enamels and glass, jewelried silver and gold, and the structured clay metal and stone pieces.1988, Helen Khal, The Woman Artist in Lebanon

jewellery (usually uncountable, plural jewelleries)

(usually) Collectively, personal ornamentation such as rings, necklaces, brooches and bracelets, made of precious metals and sometimes set with gemstones.
- The jewellery was very expensive in that shop.
Synonyms:

bling, bling-bling, tom, tomfoolery
(informal, usually, oil industry) Any tools, instruments, devices, etc., placed within a drill pipe.
- The rig simply retrieves the old pipe and runs a new pipe back in the hole (the completion string). Any special items on the string other than the pipe itself are referred to as "jewellery". These can be any number of things, from down-hole motors to mandrels and radioactive sources for survey...2005, Paul Carter, Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, Crows Nest: Allen and Unwin, page 44
(usually) The shop from which a jeweller trades or makes jewellery

Noun
plural	jewelries
Verb
third-person singular present	jewelries
present participle	jewelrying
past participle	jewelried
past	jewelried

What does jewelry mean?: Jewelry means to make jewelry.
What is jewelry the US standard spelling of?: Jewelry is the US standard spelling of jewellery.
What part of speech is jewelry?: Jewelry is a verb.
What is the past tense of jewelry?: The past tense of jewelry is jewelried.

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