Definition of "metalworking" [metalworking]

• The process or art of shaping things out of metal. (noun)

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• "Like numerous other artists from the fields of music, dance and painting, and crafts such as metalworking, embroidery and the like, she saw in Yemenite art an ancient, untainted Jewish culture that had survived from the days of the forefathers."
• "Some of the traditional skills taught there such as metalworking, spinning, and weaving would be important in the event of a societal collapse."
• "Two hundred thousand machinists, along with their five hundred thousand allies in the metalworking trades, had been defeated in as bloody"