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work done by hand, as distinguished from work done by machine

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Usage examples (34)
  • As I have mentioned before, occasionally a plate can be made as good as the copy without hand-work.
  • He who makes the winds his messengers and the flames his servants, can do without thy hand-work, O little man.
  • Diamond drills were used at the lower heading requiring power; the other fifteen headings were driven by hand-work.
  • It was the iconoclastic effect of postmodernism coupled with the transition from hand-work to digital work in graphic design.
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