Definition of "taskwork" [task•work]

• Work done as a task. (noun)
• Work done by the job; piece work. (noun)

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• "A dull coarse web her small life seems made of; but even from its taskwork, which is undertaken for childhood itself, there are glittering threads cast across its woof and warp of care."
• "-- He who has reconciled poverty to its lot, toil to its taskwork, care to its burden -- nay, I would say even -- grief to its grave?"
• "A well-regulated prison, where the severity of the taskwork, the nature of the diet, the duration and the strictness of the confinement, all admit of apportionment to the offence, seems to include all that is desirable in this matter of punishment."