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stream-work

stream-work is the alternative form of streamwork.

Meaning of streamwork

Noun

streamwork (plural streamworks)

  1. A place where an alluvial deposit of tin ore is worked.
    • The day is marked by the serio-comic custom of sending a young lad to the highest bound or hillock in the streamwork, and allowing him to sleep there as long as he can—…1884, The Western Antiquary; Or, Devon and Cornwall Note-book

Forms of stream-work

pluralstream-works

Questions about stream-work

What is stream-work the alternative form of?
Stream-work is the alternative form of streamwork.

Words near stream-work in the dictionary

  1. stream straighteners
  2. stream the buoy
  3. stream tin
  4. stream wheel
  5. stream wheels
  6. stream-work
  7. stream-works
  8. streamable
  9. streambait
  10. streambank
  11. streambanks

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