spindlework

English

Etymology

spindle +‎ work

Noun

spindlework (uncountable)

1. (architecture) Decorative trim around a porch.
   • 2009 August 23, Christopher Gray, “The President Was Here (Grant, That Is)”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.