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millwork

millwork noun: components for buildings, produced by milling, such as doors and windows (especially prehung ones) and wood or woodlike trim with decorative cross-sections involving curves, beads, grooves, etc.

millwork: components for buildings, produced by milling, such as doors and windows (especially prehung ones)...
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Noun

millwork (uncountable)

  1. Components for buildings, produced by milling, such as doors and windows (especially prehung ones) and wood or woodlike trim with decorative cross-sections involving curves, beads, grooves, etc.
  2. (US, uncommon) Any wooden object manufactured at a lumbermill (sawmill).
    Synonyms:
    lumber

Synonyms of millwork

Origin of millwork

From mill + work.

Questions about millwork

What does millwork mean?
Millwork means components for buildings, produced by milling, such as doors and windows (especially prehung ones) and wood or woodlike trim with decorative cross-sections involving curves, beads, grooves, etc.
What part of speech is millwork?
Millwork is a noun.

Words near millwork in the dictionary

  1. millwells
  2. millwheel
  3. millwheels
  4. Millwood
  5. Millwoods
  6. millwork
  7. millworker
  8. millworkers
  9. millworks
  10. millwright
  11. millwrighting

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