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wandwork

wandwork noun: the use of a wand (or sometimes a similar instrument or tool, even an extended finger) in practicing magic, casting spells, or performing a mystical or religious ritual or ceremony (e.g. drawing symbols such as pentagrams in the air, as in Wicca).

Noun

wandwork (uncountable)

  1. The use of a wand (or sometimes a similar instrument or tool, even an extended finger) in practicing magic, casting spells, or performing a mystical or religious ritual or ceremony (e.g. drawing symbols such as pentagrams in the air, as in Wicca).
  2. The use of a wand in a stage-magic performance.
  3. The use of a long wand (stick) in training horses.
  4. The use of a long thick wand (stick) in calisthenic exercises.
  5. A thing or things made of woven wands; wickerwork.

Forms of wandwork

alternative formwand work
alternative formwand-work

Origin of wandwork

From wand + work.

Questions about wandwork

What does wandwork mean?
Wandwork means the use of a wand (or sometimes a similar instrument or tool, even an extended finger) in practicing magic, casting spells, or performing a mystical or religious ritual or ceremony (e.g. drawing symbols such as pentagrams in the air, as in Wicca).
What part of speech is wandwork?
Wandwork is a noun.

Words near wandwork in the dictionary

  1. Wandses
  2. wandsman
  3. wandsmen
  4. Wandsworth
  5. Wandsworth Common
  6. wandwork
  7. wandy
  8. wane
  9. waned
  10. Wanek
  11. Waneks

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