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streamwork

streamwork noun: a place where an alluvial deposit of tin ore is worked.

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
    • Tinworking clearly post-dates abandonment of the settlement, and may date the streamwork to the late medieval period, although it could have been worked at any time between this date and the nineteenth century.1999, Report and Transactions

Forms of streamwork

pluralstreamworks
alternative formstream-work

Origin of streamwork

From stream + work.

Questions about streamwork

What does streamwork mean?
Streamwork means a place where an alluvial deposit of tin ore is worked.
What part of speech is streamwork?
Streamwork is a noun.
What is the plural of streamwork?
The plural of streamwork is streamworks.

Words near streamwork in the dictionary

  1. streamwaters
  2. streamway
  3. streamways
  4. streamwise
  5. Streamwood
  6. streamwork
  7. streamworks
  8. streamy
  9. Strean
  10. Streans
  11. Streater

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