spindlework

noun

spindlework

noun

Etymology From spindle + work.

1

Architecture Decorative trim around a porch.

George Landers, a manufacturer from New Britain, Conn., built No. 51, with porch-fence cutouts of horses, rabbits and swans; tiny dragon heads lunge out from the delicate spindlework.2009 August 23, Christopher Gray, “The President Was Here (Grant, That Is)”, in New York Times:

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