Definition of "hand-work" [hand-work]

• Variant of handiwork (noun)

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• "He organized prisoners into ten committees: welfare; school; library and reading room; music; theater; cinematograph and gramophone; athletics and games; arts; woodcarving and hand-work; and religion."
• "Though that's usually after I have done an hour or so of hand-work anyway, so it's not too much of a drain on my time."
• "One of these was already waiting - I actually quite like doing the hand-sewing on binding, I just haven't done much lately because of doing a lot of cross-stitch (I do hand-work while watching telly) and because now that I have a laptop, I often catch up on email during some telly watching."